Environmental Assessment/Checklist

AAFA's 2011 State Honor Roll of Asthma and Allergy School Policies

For the fourth year, the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA) has released its annual report assessing all 50 states and the District of Columbia on their leadership and progress on school-based policies that address student asthma and allergy health in more than 100,000 elementary, middle and high schools across the U.S. The goal of this report is to identify state-level progress towards better school-based policies, and to provide a blueprint for asthma and allergy advocates nationwide. Does your state make the grade when it comes to school asthma & allergy policies? Full results, including an interactive map, detailed state profiles and charts, are available at www.StateHonorRoll.org For more information contact Liana Burns at liana@aafa.org or 202-466-7643 ext. 252

Each year, the Foundation's report, the “State Honor Roll™ of Asthma and Allergy Policies 

for Schools,” outlines 18 school-related core policies proven to affect positive healthy school 

environments, then assesses each state on how many of these policies they have adopted.  

If a state has enacted at least 15 of the policies, it is listed on the Foundation’s “Honor Roll.”

While thousands of local schools and districts may show innovation and leadership in 

support of students and staff with asthma and allergies, strong state-wide policies are 

lacking throughout the U.S., with some rare bright spots. Visit www.StateHonorRoll.org today to

find out how your state compares!

 

 

Contact Name: 
Liana Burns
Contact Email: 
liana@aafa.org
Contact Phone: 
202-974-1234
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Environmental Improvements for Children’s Asthma: The impact on symptom burden and return on investment of a home-based environmental assessment and modification project

The evaluation of Environmental Improvements for Children with Asthma (EICA) indicated significant improvement on asthma-related health service utilization, quality of life outcomes, and return on investment. While other studies have shown positive results from home-based environmental assessment and modifications for children with asthma, this is the first to measure an impact on symptom burden and report actual return on investment.

 

EICA was one of 14 community-based initiatives conducted by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Partners for Asthma Action (formerly Controlling Asthma in American Cities Project). EICA was an in-home program with goals of:

 

  1. Reducing asthma symptoms by lessening exposure to environmental asthma triggers in the home environment.
  2. Reducing school absences.
  3. Decreasing health service utilization and thereby reducing health care costs.

 

EICA was modeled after two successful home-environment modification programs for children with asthma in the Minneapolis and St. Paul metropolitan area—Environmental Action for Children’s Health led by Minneapolis Environmental Regulatory Services and funded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Minnesota Department of Health’s Reducing Environmental Triggers for Asthma funded by the Environmental Protection Agency.

 

Contact Name: 
Jill Heins Nesvold
Contact Email: 
Jill.Heins@lungmn.org
Contact Phone: 
6512278014
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Pilot Project-Provider Training

Pilot Project -Provider Training-Environmental Asthma Triggers

Pilot Project -Provider Training-Environmental Asthma Triggers

Contact Name: 
Heidi LeSane
Contact Email: 
lesane.heidi@epa.gov
Contact Phone: 
4045629074
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