- 2.1: Organizational Structure
- 2.2: Meetings and Symposia Proceedings
- 2.3: Publications
- 2.4: Newsletters
- 2.5: Contact ARC
- 2.6: News
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.
News
ARC Releases Updated Business Case
This report updates our first Business Case published in 2007. Two primary developments motivated the update. First, the National Asthma Education Prevention Program (NAEPP) Expert Panel, which is responsible for regularly updating the national best practice guidelines for asthma management, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Task Force on Community Preventive Services (CDC Task Force), each published major reviews—including economic evaluations—of the
research on asthma education and environmental interventions. Second, programs translating research on comprehensive asthma management into practice have proliferated. Therefore, in addition to summarizing the NAEPP and the CDC Task Force reviews, this update describes six evidence-based programs which are achieving their goals of bringing asthma under control cost-effectively.
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.