- 3.1: Health and Housing
- 3.2: Building, Maintenance and Renovation
- 3.3: Home Hazards
- 3.4: Integrated Pest Management
- 3.5: Training
- 3.5: Research
- 3.6: Program Links
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.
Key Research on Integrated Pest Management
Interventions to Reduce Allergen Levels and Improve Health Outcomes
Crain EF, Walter M, O'Connor GT et al. Home and allergic characteristics of children with asthma in seven U.S. urban communities and design of an environmental intervention: the Inner-City Asthma Study. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2002; 110(9): 939-45.
Kass D, McKelvey W, Carlton E et al. Effectiveness of an Integrated Pest Management Intervention in Controlling Cockroaches, Mice and Allergens in New York City Public Housing. Environmental Health Perspectives. 15 April 2009.
Kattan M, Stearns SC, Crain EF et al. Cost-effectiveness of a home-based environmental intervention for inner-city children with asthma. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 2005; 116 (5): 1058-1063.
Krieger J, Takaro TK, Song L et al. A Randomized Controlled Trial of Asthma Self-management Support Comparing Clinic-Based Nurses and In-Home Community Health Workers. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. 2009; 163 (2): 141-149.
Krieger JW, Takaro TK, Allen C et al. The Seattle-King County healthy homes project: implementation of a comprehensive approach to improving indoor environmental quality for low-income children with asthma. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2002; 110 (suppl. 2): 311-322.
Krieger, JW Takaro TK, Song L, Weaver M. The Seattle-King County Healthy Homes Project: A Randomized, Controlled Trial of a Community Health Worker Intervention to Decrease Exposure to Indoor Asthma Triggers. American Journal of Public Health. 2005; 95 (4): 652-59.
Levy, Jonathan I., Brugge, Doug, Peters, Junenette L., et al. A community-based participatory research study of multifaceted in-home environmental interventions for pediatric asthmatics in public housing. Social Science & Medicine. 63 (2006): 2191-2203.
Miller DM and Meek F. Cost and Efficacy Comparison of Integrated Pest Management Strategies with Monthly Spray Insecticide Applications for German Cockroach (Dictyoptera: Blattellidae) Control in Public Housing, Journal of Economic Entomology. 2004; 97(2): 559-569.
Morgan WJ, Crain EF, Gruchalla RS et al. Results of a home-based environmental intervention among urban children with asthma. New England Journal of Medicine. 2004; 351(11): 1068-1080.
National Center for Healthy Housing. Comparison of Cost and Effectiveness for Cockroach Control. 2007.
National Center for Healthy Housing. Boston Public Housing: Partnerships and Policy Advances.
Phipatanakul W, Cronin B, Wood RA et al. Effect of environmental intervention on mouse allergen levels in homes of inner-city Boston children with asthma. Annals of Allergy and Asthma Immunology. 2004; 92(4): 420-425.
Pongracic JA, Visness CM, Gruchalla RS et al. Effect of mouse allergen and rodent environmental intervention on asthma in inner-city children. Annals of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology. 2008; 101 (1): 35-41.
Sandel M, Batcheller A, Richman I et al. Can Integrated Pest Management Impact Urban Children with Asthma? Boston University School of Medicine. Department of Pediatrics. 2005.
Williams MK, Barr DB, Camann DE et al. An Intervention to Reduce Residential Insecticide Exposure during Pregnancy among an Inner-City Cohort. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2006; 114(11): 1684-1689.
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.