Environmental Assessment/Checklist

As part of a comprehensive asthma management program, home visits can provide people with asthma an extra level of support and can contribute to the success and sustainability of a health plan’s asthma disease management program. EPA's new guide, Implementing An Asthma Home Visit Program: 10 Steps To Help Health Plans Get Started, offers step-by-step instructions on how to start an asthma home visit program with a particular emphasis on environmental risk factor management.

Home Is Where the Triggers Are: Increasing Asthma Control by Improving the Home Environment
PEDIATRIC ALLERGY, IMMUNOLOGY, AND PULMONOLOGY Volume 23, Number 2: 139-45, 2010

Guide for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools community on the CMS environmental footprint. Offers examples of the CMS performance and how you can take action at home, school, and work to help reduce reduce utility consumption, pollution and solid waste.

A colorful one-page checklist of the most common sources and types of indoor air pollution and the simple, no or low-cost strategies for reducing exposure.

Podcast en español sobre la importancia de mantener el aire libre de alérgenos al interior de los hogares

James Sublett, MD, a board-certified allergist and indoor air specialist from Louisville, Kentucky, and a member of the Board of Regents Executive Committee for the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology talks with AANMA about ways to reduce allergens and irritants at home.

AANMA¿s Indoor AIRepair at Home, School and Play (HSP) kit is one of our most recognizable educational materials for patient education. The kit helps children with asthma, their parents, relatives, school administrators, and other community members recognize the correlation between good indoor air quality and improved asthma symptoms. English and Spanish version are compiled in a electronic versi

EPA developed the Home Environment Checklist to help home care visitors by providing a list of questions and action steps to assist in the identification and mitigation of environmental asthma triggers commonly found in and around homes. The checklist is designed to allow home care visitors to focus on the specific activities or things in a room - in particular the asthma patient’s sleeping area - that might produce or harbor environmental triggers. The activities recommended in the checklist are generally simple and low cost.