Asthma Educator

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Managing Asthma in the School Environment: What NEA Members Need to Know is a free, 1.5 hour course that will educate NEA members (and other members of the school community such as parents, principals, superintendents, and facility managers) about asthma so that they can help students better manage their asthma while at school.

This one-page, step-by-step guidance provides helpful hints for comprehensive asthma management.

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.

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.

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.

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!

Preventing Asthma Attacks among Native American Children

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

Peak Performance USA is a national asthma awareness/school health program sponsored by the American Association for Respiratory Care. It is a free program designed to assist school nurses and personnel to help children live healthier lives by controlling their asthma, with aid from local respiratory care professionals.