Resources
Families USA Releases “Advancing Health Equity Through Community Health Workers and Peer Providers: Mounting Evidence and Policy Recommendations” Families USA has published a report examining the effectiveness and versatility of community health workers. The report utilizes new evidence from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute’s studies. In addition, it contains 12 equity-focused and evidence-based policy recommendations, and 4 recommendations on how to improve research. For more information and to view the report, click here.
- Families USA Releases “Advancing Health Equity Through Community Health Workers and Peer Providers: Mounting Evidence and Policy Recommendations”
- City Health Dashboard Provides Health and Related Data for Large US Cities
- EPA Releases Online Course, “Wildfire Smoke and Your Patients’ Health” with Continuing Education Credits
- EPA Releases “Supporting Healthy Houses of Worship: Effective, Affordable Measures to Protect the Health of Congregations and Staff”
- CITRIS Policy Lab Publishes Health, Wildfires & Climate Change in California White Paper
- Greenlining Institute and California’s Energy Efficiency for All Release “Equitable Building Electrification: A Framework for Powering Resilient Communities”
- National Center for Healthy Housing Releases “Why Partner with Energy Stakeholders and Programs?
- American Lung Association Releases Asthma Trends Brief
- E4TheFuture Releases Energy-Plus-Health Playbook
- Clearing the Air: An Asthma Toolkit for Healthy Schools Released
- RAMP Launches Project to Assess Health and Equity Implications of Freight Automation
- Leading the Way to Better Breathing: Managed Care Organizations and Asthma Home Visiting Services in California – a Tool for MCOs and Partners
Studies and Reports
Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma (EPR-3) The National Institutes of Health’s National Asthma Education and Prevention Program Coordinating Committee (NAEPPCC) Expert Panel Working Group has completed its draft updates on selected topics in the current Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma(EPR-3). The NAEPPCC Expert Panel Working Group has opened a public comment period to obtain input on the draft […]
- Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma (EPR-3)
- Characteristics of Existing Asthma Self-Management Education Packages
- Study Examines Effectiveness of Step-Up Therapy in Black Children and Adults with Asthma
- Study Investigates Ventilation Rates in California Classrooms
- Effects of Community Health Workers on Asthma Health Outcomes
- Study Examines Public School Teacher Asthma Education
- Researchers Study Connections Between Depression, Anxiety, and Asthma-Related Emergency Department Visits
- The Impacts of Interactions of Neighborhood Social Conditions and Family Relationships on Childhood Asthma
- Feasibility of Incentives to Increase Adherence in High-Risk Children with Asthma
- Researchers Investigate Impacts of Infant Gut Microbial Compounds on Allergy and Asthma Risk
- Union of Concerned Scientists Release “Killer Heat in the United States: Climate Choices and the Future of Dangerously Hot Days”
- Investigation of Ultrafine Particle Exposure Linkages to Childhood Asthma Incidence
Opportunities
California advocates: We Need Your Support for Asthma Home Visits within New Medi-Cal Initiative; Sign-Ons due 12/12 The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) recently released a proposed Medi-Cal reform effort, California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM). The new initiative has some clear opportunities to advance asthma home visiting services. Here’s DHCS’s description: [CalAIM] is a multi-year initiative by DHCS to improve the quality of life and health outcomes of our […]
- California advocates: We Need Your Support for Asthma Home Visits within New Medi-Cal Initiative; Sign-Ons due 12/12
- Webinar: Asthma Disparities and Differential Responses to Therapy; 12/4
- Funding Opportunity: EPA’s Environmental Education Grant Program Offers $3 Million for Local Projects; Applications Due 1/6/2020
- Funding Opportunity: EPA Launches Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem-Solving Cooperative Agreement Program; Application Deadline 2/7/2020
- A $15 million victory for people with asthma!
- The Asian Pacific Environmental Network is Hiring a Policy Director
- American Lung Association Looking For Partners for “Year of Air Pollution & Health”
- CA Healthy Housing Coalition: 2019 Annual Meeting
- State of New Mexico Asthma Control Program Hiring Asthma Epidemiologist
- American Lung Association is Hiring Two Policy Specialist