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As part of a comprehensive asthma management program, home visits can provide people with asthma an extra level of support and can contribute to the success and sustainability of a health plan’s asthma disease management program. EPA's new guide, Implementing An Asthma Home Visit Program: 10 Steps To Help Health Plans Get Started, offers step-by-step instructions on how to start an asthma home visit program with a particular emphasis on environmental risk factor management.
English, Document (PDF, Word, Excel), Education/Outreach Materials, Environmental Assessment/Checklist, Reference Guide, Home/Housing, Implementation Guide
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This tri-fold brochure is a handy resource for parents and caretakers of children with asthma. It discusses five common environmental triggers and ways to reduce exposures to these triggers indoors. Parents can follow the step-by-step guidance to reduce asthma triggers in their homes and minimize their children's exposure to triggers that may increase the number or severity of their asthma attacks.
Chinese, English, Education/Outreach Materials, Reference Guide, Home/Housing, Korean, Spanish, Vietnamese
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EPA ha publicado un nuevo video educativo. La EPA se esfuerza en fomentar los conocimientos sobre el rol de los factores ambientales del asma para ayudar a los que sufren de asma.
Home/Housing, Spanish, Video (VHS or DVD)
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Background. The National Asthma Education Prevention Program's (NAEPP) Expert Panel Report 3 (EPR3) guidelines have stressed the need for environmental control measures for asthma, but there is limited evidence of their efficacy. To examine the effectiveness of an in-home asthma intervention program for children and adults in Connecticut, the Connecticut Department of Health conducted a panel study to analyze quality-of-life indicators for asthmatic patients and the cost–benefit relationship in preventive care versus acute care.
English, Program Management/Evaluation, Website, Other
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Allergy & Asthma Network Mothers of Asthmatics (AANMA)'s Asthma Action Plan template is an easy-to-use, medically reviewed resource -- we get many requests for this from school nurses!
Asthma Care Plan/Action Plan, English, Document (PDF, Word, Excel), Education/Outreach Materials, School
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Toolkit provides a detailed and comprehensive set of tools to help you make written material in printed formats easier for people to read, understand, and use. This resource is referenced throughout the TalkingQuality site. It provides valuable guidance on
• Developing clear, effective and well-organized written materials. Learn more at http://talkingquality.ahrq.gov/content/learnmore/tips/tip2.aspx.
• Learning about design and working with design professionals. Learn more at http://talkingquality.ahrq.gov/content/learnmore/tips/resourcebasic.aspx.
• Testing your materials with your audience. Learn more at
http://talkingquality.ahrq.gov/content/learnmore/tips/tip7.aspx.
English, Document (PDF, Word, Excel), Quality Improvement
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Preventing Asthma Attacks among Native American Children
English, Education/Outreach Materials, Website, Other
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Home Is Where the Triggers Are: Increasing Asthma Control by Improving the Home Environment
PEDIATRIC ALLERGY, IMMUNOLOGY, AND PULMONOLOGY Volume 23, Number 2: 139-45, 2010
Community Health/Outreach Worker Tool, English, Document (PDF, Word, Excel), Education/Outreach Materials, Environmental Assessment/Checklist, Home/Housing
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Details about the differences between the strategic evaluation planning team you’ve worked with over the past year as compared to the evaluation planning teams that will be formed to develop your individual evaluation plans.
English, Document (PDF, Word, Excel), Program Management/Evaluation, Quality Improvement
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Wade, T. J. and J. J. Guo (2010). "Linking Improvements in Health-Related Quality of Life to Reductions in Medicaid Costs Among Students Who Use School-Based Health Centers." Am J Public Health 100(9): 1611-1616.
English, Document (PDF, Word, Excel), Health Care Setting