Communities in Action for Asthma Friendly Environments
Webinar Series

The Communities in Action for Asthma-Friendly Environments Webinar Series brings you up-to-date knowledge and information from leading experts and asthma management program leaders from across the country. 
Simply dial into a toll-free conference line and log onto a Web site from the convenience of your home or office to:

• Learn current knowledge and state of the art tools and resources
• Discover effective strategies in asthma program design and delivery
• Engage the experts through question and answer sessions
• Contribute to the discussion through interactive polling features

All webinars are archived below, so you always have access to presentation materials and audio/visual recordings.

Economic Evaluation of Home-Based Environmental Interventions New!
Continue to explore asthma control through home-based interventions and evaluate the economic implications of these interventions. Tursynbek Nurmagambetov from the CDC National Center for Environmental Health, examines economic evaluations in public health and demonstrate the value for home-based environmental interventions. For a list of the studies referenced during the presentation, please click on the "CDC Economic Review Reference List".

Targeted Home Environmental Interventions Webinar Series
Based on growing evidence to support targeted home environmental interventions for asthma management, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sponsored a series of learning webinars to provide programs with a foundation to explore asthma control through the CDC Community Guide recommendations for multi-trigger, multi-component environmental interventions and to evaluate the economic implications of these interventions.

Housing Code Enforcement
The Asthma Webinar on Housing Code Enforcement focused on how Boston's Breathe Easy at Home (BEAH) Team developed an innovative Web-based technology to link health care providers with public health service home inspections. Panelists discussed how the application of this technology enhances asthma management through clinician referral for public health services.

Program Evaluation Basics
This learning series is based on the CDC Framework for Program Evaluation in Public Health.  Leading experts discuss fundamental concepts in program evaluation, the role of evaluation in program planning and implementation, design and implementation of an evaluation component, data collection and analysis, and the application of evaluation findings for program improvement. 

Investing in Best Practices for Asthma
This learning series addresses issues critical to delivering and financing comprehensive asthma care.  Authors of an important report about the cost-effectiveness of asthma management strategies discuss their findings, in particular around education and in-home environmental interventions.   Executives from two health plans also discuss their approaches to delivering and financing comprehensive asthma programs.

Communities in Action:  Leadership Voices Sharing Best Practices
Hear from three Communities in Action National Exemplary Award Winners as they share their experiences developing and sustaining their effective asthma programs.  Find out about the strategies—Key Drivers for Program Effectiveness—that these leaders have integrated into their overall program design and the results they are achieving.