The Communities in Action for Asthma-Friendly Environments Network provides you access to the Asthma Change Package—a tool designed to help asthma programs achieve breakthrough improvements in community asthma care. The Asthma Change Package provides quick access to program strategies that improve health outcomes and program sustainability.

The Change Package presents a dynamic system—the System for Delivering High-Quality Asthma Care—that drives successful asthma program design, delivery, outcomes, and longevity.

What is the System for Delivering High Quality Asthma Care?
The System for Delivering High-Quality Asthma Care is a conceptual framework that identifies the core elements of successful asthma programs and the processes that drive their implementation, continuous improvement, and endurance. The System is flexible. Any program, regardless of its size, institutional home, budget, target community, or level of development, can use the System to guide its work. How you apply the System will depend on where your program is in its evolution. Early on, you may focus on using the System as a guide for getting started. After several years, you may focus more on using it to make your program last.

How Can I Use the Change Package?
The Change Package (Version 3) presents the change concepts and strategies that successful asthma programs have applied to incorporate the System for Delivering High-Quality Asthma Care into their programs. ‘First Things First’ and ‘Making It Last’ headings appear in the Change Package table to help programs at different stages of development focus in on the System components and strategies most relevant to their situations.

The System is dynamic. Its effectiveness results from the ongoing interaction between its components. The most successful and enduring asthma programs continually pursue all of the System components, deepening, refining, and enriching these components as their programs mature. Community asthma programs that achieve breakthrough results are works in progress and most put the components of success in place over time. High-quality asthma care is a marathon and not a sprint.

The Communities in Action for Asthma-Friendly Environments Network updates the Change Package as real-time learning and information exchange drive the ongoing improvement of asthma care. The latest release is version 3.

Snapshot of Ten High-Performing Asthma Management Programs A brief snapshot of successful asthma management programs presented through the framework of the System for Delivering High Quality Asthma Care. In their diversity, these programs demonstrate that, whether led by a health plan, a health care provider, or community-based organizations, the System provides the foundation for programs to achieve enduring health improvements for people with asthma.
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To learn more about High Performing Asthma Programs that are applying the System for High Quality Asthma Care to improve their program outcomes and sustainability, click on a link below to access Versions 1 and 2 of the Asthma Change Package.
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The Communities in Action for Asthma-Friendly Environments Change Package is continually updated to reflect the latest input from successful programs. Your feedback is essential for improving the Change Package and ensuring a real-time learning and information exchange tool that can drive the ongoing improvement of asthma care.

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