- 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.
Asthma, Pests and Pesticides
Asthma, Pests, and Pesticides
Ely, Elissa. House Dust Yields Clue to Asthma: Roaches. New York Times. 6 April 2009.
Kim J, Merry AC, Nemzek JA et al. Eotaxin Represents the Principal Eosinophil Chemoattractant in a Novel Murine Asthma Model Induced by House Dust Containing Cockroach Allergens. The Journal of Immunology. 2001; 167(5): 2808-2815.
Phipatanakul W, Eggleston PA, Wright EC et al. Mouse allergen. I. The prevalence of mouse allergen in inner-city homes. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 2000; 106 (6): 1070-1074.
Rosenstreich DL, Eggleston P, Kattan M et al. The Role of Cockroach Allergy and Exposure to Cockroach Allergen in Causing Morbidity among Inner-City Children with Asthma. New England Journal of Medicine. 1997; 336 (19): 1356-1363.
Salam MT, Li YF, Langholz B, Gilliland FD. Early-life environmental risk factors for asthma: findings from the Children's Health Study. Environmental Health Perspectective. 2004; 112(6): 760-765.
Salameh PR, Baldi I, Brochard P, et al. Respiratory symptoms in children and exposure to pesticides. European Respiratory Journal. 2003; 22: 507-512.
Stout DM, Bradham KD, Egeghy PP et al. American Healthy Homes Survey: A National Study of Residential Pesticides Measured from Floor Wipes. Environmental Science & Technology. 2009; 43 (12), pp 4294-4300.
Weiner BP, and RM Worth. Insecticides: Household use and respiratory impairment. Hawaii Medical Journal. 1969; 28(4): 283-285.
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.