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NHLBI’s Learn More Breathe Better Program Offers Tip Sheets and Resources in English and Spanish
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institutes’ Learn More Breathe Better program has released a series of new asthma resources and tip sheets to help patients and caregivers understand more about asthma. It now offers several Device Tip Sheets on how to use Inhalers and Nebulizers: For How to Use a Metered-Dose Inhaler, click here.…
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RAMP CHW Meeting: Mold in the Home
Natalie Sacramento from the California Department of Public Health’s asthma program, California Breathing, and Amna Haslam from the California Department of Public Health’s Healthy Homes and Communities program, presented “Mold in the Home” on January 19, 2022. To view the full presentation, click here. RAMP hosts regular convenings for CHWs, promotoras, and others providing asthma education.…
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Building CHW Capacity: Meeting Recordings
RAMP hosts regular convenings for CHWs, promotoras, and others providing asthma education. Below are select recordings of those meetings. For additional information about future meetings, including how to join them, please visit “Building the capacity of CHWs and promotoras to improve asthma management” here. Community Air Quality Monitoring. Presented by David Chang, MA, Project Coordinator/Health…
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COVID-19, Asthma and Equity: What We’re Learning and Doing
The COVID pandemic has had immeasurable impacts on the lives of millions through illness, disability, and death. It has also dramatically shaped the work of asthma stakeholders. Asthma home visitors demonstrated remarkable adaptability by shifting to virtual visits, in part or in full. Clinicians have tried to make sense of the unexpected dip in asthma…
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Exciting Advances in Asthma Home Visiting Services in California
Happy New Year! 2022 has arrived, along with exciting new opportunities and challenges. Here at RAMP, we’re especially enthusiastic about the January launch of a new Medi-Cal program that allows Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) to use Medicaid funding to pay for home trigger remediation for people with poorly controlled asthma. Medi-Cal’s Community Supports program provides…
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California’s Medicaid Policies Support Asthma Home Visiting Services
Last year, RAMP and our partners made groundbreaking progress changing policies to increase access to asthma home visiting services for Californians with poorly controlled asthma. In 2023, we are excited to see these policies more fully enacted to integrate in-home education, trigger assessment and environmental remediation into the health care system. With these policies in…
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American Lung Association Releases Indoor Air Quality in Schools Guide
The American Lung Association has put together a guide on Indoor Air Quality in Schools. The guide is designed to provide overviews of indoor air quality, share tools that schools can use to improve air quality, and offer guidance for navigating CARES/CRSSA funding to improve air quality in schools. Full information, including the ability to…
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RAMP’s Goals for 2022
Healthy and stable housing. Healthy air for all. Health care equity. I’m pleased to share these goals will guide RAMP’s work for the next three years and beyond as we work to reduce the burden of asthma with a focus on health equity. As 2021 comes to a close, in partnership with RAMP Advisory Committee…
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Review Examines Housing Impact on Asthma Disparities
The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology’s November 2021 edition contains an article examining the impact housing, as a social determinant of health, can have on asthma disparities. Researchers note that “In many minority communities, poor housing conditions and value are a legacy of historical policies and practices imbued with structural racism, including redlining, displacement,…
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Protecting Kids from Wildfire Smoke — Actions for California Schools
As researchers uncover greater health consequences of wildfire smoke exposure, especially in youth, California schools are being called on to adapt, improving infrastructure to protect kids against this and other impending climate impacts on health. Partners from across the state, including Stanford University and RAMP, produced this fact sheet in late 2021 to support schools…
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RAMP CHW Meeting: Integrated Pest Management
Chris Geiger, Ph.D., IPM Program Manager at the San Francisco Department of the Environment, presented “Integrated Pest Management” on November 17, 2021. To view the full presentation, click here. RAMP hosts regular convenings for CHWs, promotoras, and others providing asthma education. For additional information about future meetings, including how to join them, please visit our Community…
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With New EPA Support, RAMP to Expand Systems to Sustain In-Home Environmental Asthma Interventions
If you have read our Digests for any length of time, you know how committed RAMP is to increasing access to asthma home visiting services for people with poorly controlled asthma. These services work. Because these services improve health outcomes, decrease health care expenditures, and reduce disparities in the asthma burden, we believe they should…