Specific to asthma:

The National Asthma Education and Prevention Program's (NAEPP) Asthma Management Model System, http://www.nhlbisupport.com/asthma/index.html

Action Against Asthma, A Strategic Plan for the Department of Health Services, http://aspe.hhs.gov/sp/asthma

The American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, http://www.aaaai.org

The California American Lung Association, http://www.californialung.org

The American Lung Association of the East Bay, http://www.lungusa.org/eastbay/

The American Lung Association of San Francisco/San Mateo, http://www.lungusa.org/sanfrancisco_sanmateo/index.html

American College of Chest Physicians, http://www.chestnet.org

Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, http://www.aafa.org

The Soap and Detergent Association, http://www.cleaning101.com

 

Clinical: (back to top)

National Asthma Education and Prevention Program Expert Panel Report 2: Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma, http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/asthma/asthgdln.htm

Pediatric Asthma: Promoting Best Practice: A Guide for Managing Asthma in Children. http://www.aaaai.org/professional/initiatives/pediatricasthma.stm

Research: (back to top)

Attack Asthma, a report from the Pew Environmental Health Commission, http://pewenvirohealth.jhsph.edu

Chronic Disease Notes and Reports, http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/cdnr.htm

(HEDIS) measures for participating managed care organizations and other organizations, http://www.ncqa.org/hedis.htm

Data collection processs for California Cooperative HEDIS Reporting Initiative, http://www.healthscope.org/hp/prvent/datacol.htm

Morbidity Mortality Weekly Report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, http://www.cdc.gov/epo/mmwr/mmwr.html

Healthy People 2010 Objectives. http://web.health.gov/healthypeople

Blindfolding Public Health in the Fight Against Asthma, Health-Track, http://health-track.org

Legislation and Funding (back to top)

California ALA's Advocacy Network, http://actionnetwork.org/add.tcl?domain=AM%5FLUNG%5fCA

Federal Government Legislation Updates, http://thomas.loc.gov

Environment: (back to top)

Scorecard, an information service of the Environmental Defense Fund, a source of information about environmental pollutant on a local level. A user can input a specific zip code to obtain the names and a map of the locations of polluting companies in the area. http://scorecard.org

EPA Indoor Air Quality home page. http://www.epa.gov

The Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing (PATH), http://www.pathnet.org/about/about.html

The Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation. Practical, hands on information related to buying and creating a healthy and "green" home. http://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/cmhc.html

The University of Minnesota's Home Indoor Air Quality Knowledge Base. http://www.dehs.umn.edu

Children's Environmental Health Network, http://www.cehn.org

Clearing the Air:Asthma and Indoor Air Exposures, a report by the Institutes of Medicine. http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/sp/asthma/appxh.pdf