Publications about Asthma
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Download, print and share asthma guidance for a range of audiences, from kids to healthcare professionals.
On this page:
- Asthma Publications Resource One-Pager
- Publications for Parents, Caregivers, and Kids
- Publications for Healthcare Professionals
- Publications for Schools
- Factsheets and Reports
- Asian Language Publications
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Asthma Publications Resource One-Pager
This one-pager has QR codes to several asthma resources – including guides for asthma triggers, tips for controlling asthma and a home visit checklist for healthcare professionals. Learn how good indoor air quality contributes to a favorable environment for individuals with asthma. Simply scan the QR codes to access the resources.
Publications for Parents, Caregivers and Kids
Help Your Child Gain Control Over Asthma
This brochure offers tips on how to manage asthma and follow simple steps to minimize exposure to asthma triggers found indoors and out.
How to Manage Your Child's Indoor Environments (pdf)
This brochure offers actions you can take to help manage your child's asthma and prevent attacks before they happen. Learn how managing your child's indoor environment is an important step in reducing exposure to the things that can trigger asthma attacks.
Clearing the Air: 10 Steps to Making Your Home Asthma-Friendly
This one page, simple to follow guidance document lists recommended actions to help control asthma triggers in the home.
Dusty The Asthma Goldfish and His Asthma Triggers Fun Book
This educational activity book helps children learn more about asthma triggers.
Also available as a mini booklet!
Why is Coco Orange?
Coco the chameleon can't change colors, and his asthma is acting up. Read how Coco and his friends at Lizard Lick Elementary solve this mystery as they learn about air quality and how to stay healthy when the air quality is bad. The picture book and video are for all children, especially those with asthma, and their caregivers.
Asthma Triggers Infographics
This collection of infographics provides a brief overview of different kinds of asthma triggers and ways to reduce exposure. Información disponible en español.
Publications for Healthcare Professionals
Asthma Home Environment Checklist
This checklist guides home care visitors in identifying environmental asthma triggers most commonly found in homes. It includes sections on the building, home interior and room interior and provides low-cost action steps for remediation.
Home Characteristics and Asthma Triggers Training for Home Visitors (pptx)
This training, developed by CDC, EPA, and HUD, guides home visitors in identifying environmental asthma triggers most commonly found in homes. The accompanying script in the notes, serves to assist the trainer in delivering the slides. This training complements the existing Asthma Home Environment Checklist and includes sections on the building, home interior, and room interior and provides low-cost action steps for remediation.
In-Home Environmental Education Program, Case Study: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Search EPA Archive
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia case study is intended to offer providers, health insurers, public health departments and community-based organizations an overview of an asthma in-home intervention.
Implementing An Asthma Home Visit Program (pdf)
This guide offers health care organizations step-by-step instructions on how to start an asthma home visit program, with emphasis on environmental risk factor management. Representatives from seven health care plans share their experiences and recommendations.
Publications for Schools
Managing Asthma in the School Environment
This guide offers valuable information for all school staff, especially school nurses, teachers and maintenance staff, on how to identify and control common environmental factors in schools that trigger asthma episodes.
IAQ Tools for Schools Action Kit
Shows schools how to carry out a practical plan to improve indoor air problems at little or no cost using straightforward activities and in-house staff. The kit provides best practices, industry guidelines, sample policies and a sample IAQ management plan. Get the entire Kit online at the IAQ Tools for Schools Action Kit website.
Factsheets and Reports
Asthma Fact Sheet (pdf)
Highlights the most up-to-date asthma statistics. Información disponible en español.
The fact sheet is on the first ever national data on environmental asthma trigger awareness, actions taken to reduce exposure to environmental asthma triggers, and barriers to trigger reductions action.
Presidential Task Force on Environmental Health and Safety Risks to Children
The President's Task Force on Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks to Children developed the Coordinated Federal Action Plan to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Asthma Disparities, which is an outcome of the collaborative interagency Asthma Disparities Working Group, co-chaired by HHS, EPA and HUD.
Clearing the Air: Asthma and Indoor Air Exposure (pdf)
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The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Institute of Medicine issued this report in 2000 describing the role of indoor environmental pollutants in the development and exacerbation of asthma. The report concludes that exposure to indoor pollutants is an important contributor to the asthma problem in this nation. Asthma sufferers should consult with their doctor about reducing their exposure indoor air pollutants. A full copy of the NAS report is available at the National Academies Press website.
Asian Language Publications
Clear Your Home of Asthma Triggers Trifold (pdf)
This brochure is a handy resource for parents and caregivers of children with asthma. It explains common indoor asthma triggers and how to control them in homes.