Implementation Guide

Building Systems to Sustain Home-Based Asthma Services is a new eLearning and technical assistance platform designed to equip staff in public health agencies, state asthma-control programs, state Medicaid agencies, and other housing and health organizations with information about how to build the systems, infrastructure, and financing to put home-based asthma services in place in their own states, communities, or regions.

Join the US EPA in the national effort to raise asthma awareness during Asthma Awareness Month. Host activities to educate people in your community about comprehensive asthma management. Download EPA’s Asthma Awareness Month Event Planning Kit featuring new ideas for outreach and awareness activities, tips for working with the media, success stories, and much more.

Looking for more resources on how primary prevention can reduce the onset of asthma? View this resource to learn key themes from the full Podcast Episode 13 transcript.

This tool kit shows how Washington State partners are approaching asthma home visits.

The FlowBrush™ is the latest asthma monitoring technology developed to assist asthma patients. The FlowBrush Asthma Surveillance Telemedicine (FAST) is a national program helps identify asthma attacks at the earliest stages, allowing preventive measures to be implemented before expensive ER visits and hospital stays are needed.

The NEAIC Suggested Supplies list was designed to guide providers who are new to asthma home visiting services and to standardize required supplies across NEAIC intervention sites. It provides links to vendors of effective, low-cost supplies used by providers who are experienced in asthma home visiting.

The Healthy Pest Free Housing Initiative (HPFHI) is a collaborative project to reduce pest infestation (cockroach and rodent) and pesticide use among public housing residents through Integrated Pest Management (IPM).

Here in one location, you can find resources including clinical guidelines, patient education and self-management materials, policy briefs, asthma reports, clinical toolkits, mobile technology and asthma information, and smoking cessation and tobacco materials.

Developed by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, this guide aims to assist evaluators and their clients in the process of engaging stakeholders—those with a stake or interest in the program, policy, or initiative being evaluated. The guide should assist philanthropy, but also the field of evaluation more generally, as it seeks to increase the value and usefulness of evaluation.

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.