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The evaluation of Environmental Improvements for Children with Asthma (EICA) indicated significant improvement on asthma-related health service utilization, quality of life outcomes, and return on investment. While other studies have shown positive results from home-based environmental assessment and modifications for children with asthma, this is the first to measure an impact on symptom burden and report actual return on investment.

Luchando por el Aire: The Burden of Asthma on Hispanics is part of the American Lung Association’s Disparities in Lung Health Series of reports, which takes an in-depth look at a specific problem in a specific community.

Pilot Project-EPA Region 4 Asthma Program Contacts (AL, FL, GA, KY, MS,NC.SC,TN) for all programs. go to: http://www.cdc.gov/asthma/contacts/default.htm

Pilot Project-Asthma Childcare Checklist was used during the Head Start and Childcare Center Walkthrough.

Pilot Project Pre/Post Assesment Test used.

Learn about how successful asthma programs employ the strategies and tactics identified in the Asthma Change Package to achieve health improvements for people with asthma in their communities through the 2011 Snapshot of High Performing Asthma Management Programs – A Systems-Based Approach for Creating and Sustaining Effective Community-Based /Asthma Programs document.

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.

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!

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