Working Together to Reduce the Burden of Asthma
Innovative Paths to Sustainable Financing for Home-Based Asthma Services: Learn From Utah!
Let’s continue celebrating National Indoor Air Quality Awareness Month by featuring Utah’s sustainable, innovative approaches for adaptable asthma home visiting services. Stay tuned throughout the month for more inspiring and resourceful snapshots from across the country!
Our mission is to reduce the burden of asthma with a focus on health equity. Emphasizing both prevention and management, we build capacity, create linkages, and mobilize networks to advocate for policy and systems changes targeting the root causes of asthma disparities.
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Policy Action Alerts
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SB 655 Passes in Support of RAMP’s Extreme Heat Work
Extreme heat is the deadliest weather-related hazard in California. As heat waves become more frequent, more severe, and longer-lasting due to climate change, addressing extreme heat is emerging as a priority across the state. For those with asthma, a lack of cooling in their homes creates additional challenges during wildfire smoke events. Asthma home visitors…
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Updated Tools and Resources to Support Implementation of Medi-Cal’s Asthma Home Visiting Services
RAMP has developed a wide range of resources to help asthma home visiting programs as well as managed care plans to better understand and implement Medi-Cal’s asthma home visiting policies, including: We can also develop tools in response to specific needs your organization may have. For example, we’ve developed draft scripts for client outreach, a…
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The National Asthma Control Program Is Still at Risk; Help Protect This Valuable Resource
Like many of you, we continue to track the federal funding landscape and to advocate for funding for programs that improve the lives of people with asthma. Today, we’re sharing an update and some additional actions that we can all take. We’ve shared before that the future of the National Asthma Control Program (NACP) is…
Promoting Asthma Management
Asthma Action Plans
An asthma self-management tool available in four languages
California Asthma Home
Visiting Program Directory
Designed to help providers, plans, and others connect with asthma home visiting programs in their communities