- 4.1: Resources for Health Plans, Purchasers, and Policy Specialists
- 4.2: Resources for Providers
- 4.3: Resources for Patients and Families
Our mission:
To reduce the impact of asthma across New England, through collaborations of health, housing, education, and environmental organizations with particular focus on the contribution of schools, homes, and communities to the disease and with attention to its disproportionate impact on populations at greatest risk.
Resources for Providers
New from ARC:
What the Health Sector Needs to Implement Best Practices for Asthma: a Perspective from Providers
In 2008, ARC and the University of Massachusetts Lowell convened health care leaders across Massachusetts to identify policy changes needed for providers to improve asthma care and outcomes for their most vulnerable populations, resulting in a provider consensus statement containing recommendations geared to health payers (insurers), government officials, and the health care system itself.
Other Resources
Expert Panel Report 3: Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma
The National Asthma Education and Prevention Program's (NAEPP) authoritative guidelines for best practices in asthma management.
Asthma information and resources for health care professionalsFrom the American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology
Asthma in Children and Adolescents From the Georgetown University Maternal and Child Health Library
- Environmental Management of Pediatric Asthma: Guidelines for Health Care Providers
- NEETF's Pediatric Environmental History Form
- Pediatric Environmental History Primer
US Environmental Protection Agency's Resources for Healthcare Professionals
Nurses: Partners in Asthma Care
Written for and by nurses, this practical guide describes how nurses can establish and maintain partnerships to help patients manage their asthma. By the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.
The National Asthma Educator Certification board (NAECB)
Information about the Certified Asthma Educator designation, including course content and registration information.
On October 12, 2011 ARC and close to 50 co-signers submitted testimony requesting that the Institute of Medicine examine and address the non-clinical best practice components of comprehensive asthma management as part of Community Based
Non-Clinical Prevention Policies and Wellness Strategies.
Over 50 organizations and individuals joined ARC and Health Resources in Action in expressing to New England U.S. Senator4s our extreme concern about the proposed complete elimination of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Healthy Homes and Lead Poisoning Prevention Program by the Senate Appropriations Committee in the proposed FY12 spending bill for Labor, Health and Human Services and Education.