I am a doctoral student at Arizona State University and live in Artesia New Mexico.  I am currently in a class entitled "Healthcare Policy and Innovation."  My doctoral project involves enhancing focused education to children with chronic asthma, through the use of multimedia.  One of my assignments is to create a blog, I have chosen the Federal Action Plan as my topic.  As I am reading through the action plan program, the priorities listed are encouraging and well planned.  I have several questions:

In 2013, North East Independent School District was the first school district to win the National Environmental Leadership Award in Asthma Management.
 
This award is EPA’s highest recognition a program and its leaders can receive for delivering excellent environmental asthma management as part of their comprehensive asthma care services. Each year, EPA honors exceptional health plans, health care providers and communities in action. 
 

http://clinicians.org/acu-asthma-clinical-decision-support-tool/

This is an overview of the ACU IAQ Cooperative Agreement work on developing an asthma clinical decision support tool integrating the NHLBI guidelines into a EMR at Alliance of Chicago.

-Lois Wessel, CFNP

ACU

I'm looking for a low literacy survey tool about envirnomental asthma triggers that incorporates questions on environmental justice and climate change. Anyone know of one?

Thanks,

Lois Wessel

Association of Clincians for the Underserved

lwessel@clinicians.org