American Academy of Asthma, Allergy and Immunology-Provides the Pediatric Asthma Guide, which represents the collective work of many people and organizations. It is endorsed by the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology; the American Academy of Pediatrics; and the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP) of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Based on guidelines developed by the NAEPP, it is an easily referenced, user-friendly, and pediatric-focused document for medical professionals.
www.aaaai.org
American Academy of Family Physicians-Provides a link to an article on developing and communicating a long-term treatment plan for asthma.
www.aafp.org and www.aafp.org/afp/20000415/2419.html
American Association of School Administrators (AASA)-The Governance and Leadership asthma publication includes statistics, laws, and policies regarding asthma.
www.aasa.org
American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology-Provides information and news service for patients, parents of patients, purchasers of group health care programs, and the news media. Also publishes the Asthma Disease Management Resource Manual (www.acaai.org/Member/Practice_Resources/manual.htm) on diagnosis, assessment and treatment of asthma with emphasis is given to patient self-care and monitoring.
www.acaai.org
American Lung Association (ALA)-Asthma-Friendly Schools Toolkit provides evaluation tools and information to assist with improving asthma outcomes. The ALA has many tools and does extensive outreach to schools. www.lungusa.org
American Medical Association - Provides patient education information (including asthma), latest current medical information, and useful links to additional AMA recommended sites.
www.ama-assn.org
American School Health Association-Health in Action Journal focuses on implementing health programs at the school level. www.ashaweb.org
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials-Provides a searchable database on media. It allows the user to search by zip code; last name of editors, reporters, and producers; organization; name of newspaper, TV, or radio; and/or by map of states. Data provided is a listing of all newspapers, television stations, online services, and radio stations; identities of reporters and areas of coverage; and email addresses.
www.astho.org
Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA)-Provides asthma-specific products and a listing of state-by-state chapters and support groups. Costs of Asthma in America (2000) offers cost estimates for asthma nationwide and at the state and community levels. AAFA also sponsors the Power Breathing? Program that provides a basic understanding of asthma in a peer-friendly environment. AAFA has a model education program, Teens: Taking Control of Your Asthma, in schools in Kansas City, Kansas; Kansas City, Missouri; and Anchorage, Alaska that is a comprehensive community-based strategy for supporting adolescents with asthma and improving their ability to manage their chronic medical condition. www.aafa.org
Asthma Clinical Research Network (ACRN)-Provides information on clinical trials for evaluation of new and existing therapeutic approaches and links to asthma sites.
www.acrn.org
Behavioral Risk Factors Surveillance System-Provides survey results by states using questions developed nationally by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; questions about asthma prevalence in children were added in 2001.
www.cdc.gov/brfss/
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-Provides credible information to enhance health decisions and promote health through strong national and worldwide partnerships. CDC serves as the national focus for developing and applying disease prevention and control, environmental health, and health promotion and education activities designed to improve the health of the U.S. population. www.cdc.gov
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Adolescent and School Health-Strategies for Addressing Asthma Within a Coordinated School Health Program offers concrete suggestions for schools working to improve the health and school attendance of children with asthma. The six strategies identified by the CDC can be effective whether your program is for the entire school district or just one school.
www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/asthma
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Environmental Health, Asthma Prevention Program-Provides information on prevalence and surveillance of asthma plus a model for managing asthma in the context of a coordinated school health program. There is also a presentation on asthma for health professionals containing slides and text that can be downloaded.
www.cdc.gov/asthma
Cochrane Collaboration-Provides literature reviews of health care issues.
www.cochrane.org
Council of Chief State School Officers-Provides a listing
of state offices of public instruction that provides name of state school
superintendent and contact information. www.ccsso.org
Journal of School Health - Managing Asthma in Schools - August 2006 Issue
Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health - Allows
users to search and display charts and tabular findings from individual
survey items as well as derived key child health measures from these valuable
data sources. The user-friendly site can even display state profiles,
rankings, and information for key demographic groups (e.g., child's age,
sex, race and ethnicity, household income, insurance status and type),
all free-of-charge and available 24 hours a day. The Data Resource Center
if a project of the Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative
(CAHMI) housed at the Oregon Health & Science University, and funded
by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau. www.childhealthdata.org
National Allergy and Asthma Network/Mothers of Asthmatics-Provides
publications, news, research, and consumer information on treatment of
asthma. www.aanma.org
National Association of Education Health Information Network-Supported
by the National Education Association (www.nea.org), Asthma and Schools
consolidates information about asthma-related resources for school personnel
working with grades K-12. It provides a searchable database that links
to educational materials, medical information, websites, and other resources
useful for working with schools, children, and youth. www.asthmaandschools.org
National Association of Elementary School Principals-Provides
state affiliates' membership links at their Web site. www.naesp.org
National Association of School Nurses (NASN)-Provides
information on developing an asthma management and education training
session for school nurses entitled School Nurse Asthma Management Program
(SNAMP). www.nasn.org
National Association of State Boards of Education-Provides
information on policy reports, news, and meetings and a gateway to the
states' boards of education sites. www.nasbe.org
The National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health-Provides
resources and tools for staying abreast of new developments and research
in education and child health. www.mchlibrary.info/documents/asthma.html
National Conference of State Legislatures-Provides
access to legislative policy reports, news, meetings, calendar, and a
gateway to state legislative sites. www.ncsl.org
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute-Provides
access to "The Asthma Management Model System," an information management
tool designed to facilitate science-based decision-making and evidence-based
medicine in long-term asthma management. www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/breath/breathhome.html
The system consists of three main components:
- Research links to a variety of searchable databases and other resources.
- Education provides access to clinical practice guidelines, an electronic
library, continuing education and patient education materials, and
teaching/learning tools.
- Communication allows users to connect to online forums and discussions.
The National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP)-Provides
health-related information for the general public, health care professionals,
schools, and child care providers. The site also includes "Action Against
Asthma: A Strategic Plan for the Department of Health and Human Services"
and asthma slide sets that are available for download. www.nhlbi.nih.gov/about/naepp/index.htm
National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences Library-Provides
links to sites with information on asthma research, education, and treatment.
http://library.niehs.nih.gov/consumer/disease.htm#ast
National Jewish Medical and Research Center (Lung Line)-Includes
a personal interactive diary to help track asthma symptoms and medicines
and graph quality of life relationships. www.njc.org
National School Boards Association-Contains a federation
of members' directory with links to individual state associations. www.nsba.org
New England Clinicians Forum-Includes a section on
asthma with an asthma action plan and the authorization form used to administer
medications in schools. www.neclinicians.org/main_details.asp?resourcesID=280
New England Journal of Medicine-Provides publications
from NEJM. http://content.nejm.org/cgi/search?fulltext=asthma
Parent Teacher Association-Provides links to state
PTAs with contact information www.pta.org
Physicians for Social Responsibility-Provides a review
of air pollutants and sources, health effects, and medical management,
with links to sites for more information. www.psr.org
The Provider's Guide-Offers resources to assist health
care professionals in providing quality culturally and linguistically
appropriate services to multicultural populations. http://erc.msh.org/mainpage.cfm?file=1.0.htm&module=provider&language=English
STARLIGHT STARBRIGHT Children's Foundation - Disseminates
an asthma education CD-ROM - Quest for the Code - that targets youth.
In addition, STARBRIGHT has developed an instructional manual on asthma
for school nurses to use in conjunction with the CD-ROM. See
the Asthma CD ROM: Quest for the Code
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Indoor Air Quality
Tools for Schools-Provides information and links for school districts,
facility planners, and school building personnel to address indoor air
quality (IAQ) as it relates to asthma and other health problems. www.epa.gov/iaq/schooldesign
National Data Resources about Asthma
Healthy People 2010-Provides information, data, and publications
about national goals and objectives in health promotion and disease prevention.
It includes a searchable database using the keyword asthma to identify the
467 objectives and 11 national goals. www.healthypeople.gov
National Center for Health Statistics -Provides a fact
sheet that gives asthma prevalence and death data by age, race, region,
and other indicators. www.cdc.gov/nchs/
National Health Interview Survey-Provides survey data
produced by the National Center for Health Statistics, which is a good
source for estimates of the national prevalence of asthma. www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhis.htm
Pew Environmental Health Commission-Supports a national
task force that issued a report in 2000 on asthma entitled "Blinding Public
Health in the Fight Against Asthma" that included recommendations to expand
data collection. www.health-track.org/reports
Trends in Asthma Morbidity and Mortality (April 2004)
- American Lung Association Epidemiology and Statistics Unit, Research
and Scientific Affairs analyzed the asthma information from the National
Health Interview Survey. www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b=22884&
Data Resources in States About Asthma
Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report-Provides asthma-specific
data.
State Data Contact Directory-Provides information on
potential data sources within a state. Listing of contacts by state agencies
includes state and territorial epidemiologists, Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance
System coordinator, state medical officer and designated State Center
for Health Statistics. http://www.state.**.us **initials of state
(e.g. AL, WA, OR, ID).
U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration, Maternal
and Child Health Bureau-Provides a searchable database for annual
Title V Block Grant applications and reports submitted by all 59 states
and jurisdictions. Useful data includes the core health status indicator
01, which provides rate of hospitalizations for asthma per 10,000 for
children under the age of five. www.mchlibrary.info/databases/
