Resources
Sustainable Financing for Asthma Education and Home Environmental Trigger Remediation: Lessons Learned from the Field To ensure that people with poorly controlled asthma have access to the services and systems they need to be healthy, advocates have long recognized the need for sustainable financing for asthma education and home environmental trigger assessment and remediation. Recent transformations to the health care system, including a greater emphasis on prevention, provide more opportunities […]
- Sustainable Financing for Asthma Education and Home Environmental Trigger Remediation: Lessons Learned from the Field
- Health Effects of Wildfire Smoke and Ash: Lessons from California Podcast and Commentary Available
- California Department of Public Health Releases Updated Wood Dust and Work-Related Asthma Guide
- Environmental Law Institute Releases Indoor Air Quality Guide for Tenants
- School Indoor Air Quality Management Programs: Overview of State Laws
- American Lung Association Offers Breathe Well, Live Well Educator Training Online Course
- CDC Publishes Guide to Highlight Strategies for Addressing Asthma in School
- CDC Releases Strategies for Addressing Asthma in Homes
- CDC’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Provides Asthma and Health-Related Risk Behavior Data
- National Center for Healthy Housing Offers eLearning Modules, Building Systems to Sustain Home-Based Asthma Services Platform
- Case Studies: Asthma Environmental Interventions for School-Based Health Centers
- CDC Releases Strategies for Addressing Asthma in Schools
Studies and Reports
Researchers Investigate Effects of Traffic Related Air Pollution on Development and Persistence of Asthma Environmental International’s April 2018 edition includes an article that discusses the longer-term effects of Traffic Related Air Pollution (TRAP) on those with respiratory diseases. In order to examine the issue, researchers measured “TRAP exposure at age 45 years” based on individuals’ residential addresses and compared it with “changes in asthma and lung function.” The researchers […]
- Researchers Investigate Effects of Traffic Related Air Pollution on Development and Persistence of Asthma
- Paper Examines Effects of Congestion Tax on Pollution and Asthma in Children
- Feasibility Study Investigates Body Mass Index, Vitamin D Status and Asthma Control in Inner-City Children
- CDC Releases Vital Signs Report on Asthma in Children
- Study Examines Asthma Mortality by Industry and Occupation
- Call for Abstracts: 2018 Environmental Public Health Tracking Virtual Conference; Deadline 3/7
- Study Examines Link Between Prenatal and Early-Life Consumption of Fructose and Fructose-Containing Beverages and Childhood Asthma
- Impacts of Financial Incentives on Implementation of Asthma Self-Management
- Urban Institute Releases the Relationship Between Housing and Asthma Among School-Age Children Report
- Researchers Examine Bedroom Allergy Exposures in US Households
- Study Examines Impacts of Asthma During Pregnancy on Infant Gut Microbes
- Researchers Investigate the Prevalence and Timing of 30-Day Readmissions in Children Hospitalized with Asthma
Opportunities
Webinar: Exploring Pathways to Reimbursement for In-Home Asthma Interventions; 5/3 The Environmental Protection Agency is hosting a webinar titled “Exploring Pathways to Reimbursement for In-Home Asthma Interventions.” The webinar will take place Thursday, May 3rd, from 10:00am – 11:30am Pacific. The webinar will teach attendees about the current state of reimbursement nationally, the diverse pathways to reimbursement through Medicaid, and how local programs can begin […]
- Webinar: Exploring Pathways to Reimbursement for In-Home Asthma Interventions; 5/3
- Job Opportunity: NorCal BreathMobile is Hiring
- Application for participation in the National School-Based Health Center Asthma Demonstration Project Collaborative
- WEBINAR REGISTRATION: Sustainable Financing for Asthma Education and Home Environmental Trigger Remediation – Lessons Learned from the Field
- Funding Opportunity: National Center for Healthy Housing Offers Healthy Homes Workforce Development Mini-Grants; Deadline 4/17
- Research Seminar: Benefits of High Efficiency Filtration to Children with Asthma; 4/13
- Asthma Educator Institute; 6/5, 6/6
- American Lung Association’s Lung Force Expo; 5/10
- Funding Opportunity: The San Francisco Foundation Offers Equity Grants Program Funding; Deadline 4/13
- Funding Opportunity: Aetna Foundation Launches 2018 Cultivating Healthy Communities Grant Program; Deadline 4/18