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The WSU Energy Program provides education and technical support for schools, homes and commercial buildings in the Pacific Northwest. The goal of these programs is to improve the indoor environment for occupants in terms of quality of life, health, comfort, productivity and achievement, as well as provide for the durability, sustainability and energy efficiency of the structures.

The objectives are to increase awareness of asthma, identification of asthma triggers, and practical control strategies and interventions for trigger control.

Activities include workshops, electronic newsletters, on-site assessments, development of practical and quantifiable benchmarks for indoor environments using instrumentation and good practice.

In response to the growing asthma problem, EPA created a national, multifaceted asthma education and outreach program to share information about environmental factors -- found indoors and outdoors -- that trigger asthma. Although there is no cure, asthma can be controlled through medical treatment and management of environmental asthma triggers. EPA's goal is to reduce exposure to indoor asthma triggers and improve the quality of life for 6.5 million people by 2012.

EPA's Asthma Program raises awareness about asthma and environmental factors that trigger asthma attacks; helps people with asthma and their families manage environmental triggers in their homes; works to reduce children's exposure to indoor asthma triggers at schools and day care centers; and promotes environmental management as a component of medical and health care asthma management practices

The mission of the Washtenaw Asthma Coalition is to prevent the development of asthma and to improve the quality of life to asthmatics through community-wide collaboration.