Resources
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National League of Cities Releases Advancing City-Level Healthy Housing: Policies, Practices and Programs in Asthma & Lead – Strategies for Progress
The National League of Cities has released a new report titled “Advancing City-Level Healthy Housing: Policies, Practices and Programs in Asthma & Lead – Strategies for Progress.” The report aims to demonstrate the essential role of city leadership in addressing lead and asthma hazards in housing stock across the country. The report was developed in…
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Children’s Health Fund Releases Video Series: Asthma–What you Need to Know
The Children’s Health Fund and The Primary School have partnered to create a series of videos that describe what you need to know to take care of a child with asthma. There is a complete video that contains all the content, as well as shorter videos that explain what asthma and asthma triggers are as…
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National Center for Healthy Housing Releases Technical Briefs on Funding Community Health Worker Services
The National Center for Healthy Housing has released two technical briefs on funding services provided by community health workers. The first brief, Advancing the Role of Community Health Workers: Engaging State Medicaid Offices to Develop State Plan Amendments Regarding the Preventative Services Rule Change, “reviews the process for amending Medicaid state plans to include” community…
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California Breathing Releases Interactive County Asthma Data Tool
California Breathing has replaced its previous county asthma profiles with an Interactive County Asthma Data Tool. The tool contains information about asthma prevalence, Emergency Department visits and hospitalizations, deaths, and more. To view the tool, click here.
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American Lung Association Releases “Controlling Air Pollutants in Multi-Unit Housing”
The American Lung Association has released a resource titled “Controlling Air Pollutants in Multi-Unit Housing.” This infographic was designed to assist property managers in identifying and controlling indoor air pollutants. In addition, it includes information about the American Lung Association’s Healthy Air at Home program, which teaches how to protect air in your home. The…
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Environmental Protection Agency Produces “It’s Asthma” Infographic Series
The Indoor Environments Division of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released “It’s Asthma,” an infographic series providing information about indoor environmental asthma triggers to adolescents and emerging adults with asthma. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, adolescents and emerging adults have the highest and fourth highest current asthma prevalence rates among…
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Asthma Management Academy Releases Video on Asthma Management in Imperial County
The Asthma Management Academy, a series of in-person trainings that use national asthma guidelines to teach non-licensed health professionals and educators in the most highly impacted communities, has released a new video on how learning about asthma through the program has led to one student teaching others about air pollution and asthma. In the video,…
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USC Publishes Does Race Increase Your Chances of Asthma?
Nursing@USC, the online Family Nurse Practitioner Program at the University of Southern California, has published a resource titled “Does Race Increase Your Chance of Asthma?” The visual and written guide investigates the social determinants of health that affect asthma and examines how they impact black children as opposed to their white peers. The guide details…
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Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Releases Schools for Health: Foundations for Student Success
The Healthy Buildings Team at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health has released a report titled “Schools for Health: Foundations for Student Success.” The document was designed to synthesize more than thirty years of scientific research about the impacts of indoor environmental quality in schools, and also provide an accessible, evidence-based guide to the…