Implementation Guide

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.

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.

The Managing Asthma in the School Environment guide offers valuable information for all school staff, especially school nurses, teachers, and maintenance staff, on how to establish and evaluatine an indoor air quality management program, develop an asthma management plan, and reduce environmental asthma triggers.

School health policies and programs provide the framework for a safe and supportive environment for students with
asthma. School Health Policies and Programs Study 2006 data were examined to assess whether schools nationwide
have policies and programs consistent with the "How Asthma-Friendly Is Your School?" checklist from the National
Asthma Education and Prevention Program. Adherence to

Pest control is only one of your many responsibilities as a manager or owner of affordable or public housing, but it can be one of the most challenging. This guide describes a process of pest control that has proven effective in public housing developments all around
the country.

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.