Managing Asthma and Allergies in DC Schools Guide

The National Capital Asthma Coalition (NCAC) published and conducted trainings with the “Managing Asthma and Allergies in DC Schools Guide” to help administrators, staff, and families create environments where students with asthma and allergies are healthy, active, and ready to learn. The guide provides recommendations for managing asthma, allergies, and anaphylaxis, including relevant laws, s
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Physician Asthma Care Education (PACE)

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Hosted on the NIH NHLBI site
The PACE program is a two-part interactive, multi-media educational seminar to improve physician awareness, ability, and use of communication and therapeutic techniques for reducing the effects of asthma on children and their families. It also provides instruction on how to document, code, and improve asthma counseling reimbursement. PACE has been found in two rigorous studies to be highly effec
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Physician Asthma Care Education (PACE)

The PACE program is a two-part interactive, multi-media educational seminar to improve physician awareness, ability, and use of communication and therapeutic techniques for reducing the effects of asthma on children and their families. It also provides instruction on how to document, code, and improve asthma counseling reimbursement. PACE has been found in two rigorous studies to be highly effec
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Quest for the Code - Online Interactive Asthma Game

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Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation
Wouldn't it be great if the children you serve who have asthma could learn to better manage their condition while having fun playing an interactive video game? We developed Quest for the Code as an interactive resource to help kids do just that, and the game is now available online for the first time! Featuring some of their favorite celebrities as asthma-villians, Quest for the Code will help kid
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Care Coordination Protocols

The Philadelphia Allies Against Asthma Coalition has developed a telephone-based care coordination system called the "Link Line" for parents of children with asthma. The Link Line protocol as well as examples of pre and post assessments are available upon request.
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Asthma Action Plan

The Philadelphia Allies Against Asthma Coalition developed a uniform "Asthma Action Plan" that was approved by local Managed Care Organizations and ultimately adopted by the PA DOH for the state of Pennsylvania.
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AsthmaMoms

AsthmaMoms provides a wide range of data on asthma from background to air quality forecasts, triggers, streaming videos, products, to legislations & information in Spanish -- and environmental health information related to the NYC World Trade Center.
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Culture Clues™

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Patient and Family Centered Care and Education
Culture Clues™ are tip sheets for clinicians, designed to increase awareness about concepts and preferences of patients from the diverse cultures served by University of Washington Medical Center. Culture Clues™ serve as a guide to improve clinicians’ understanding of their patients’ and families’ perspectives of their health care experience. Culture Clues™ cover:

• Perception of
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Toolkit for Reducing Diesel Emissions

Online toolkit to assist policymakers, school personnel, parents, teachers, and children make informed decisions about ways to reduce harmful diesel emissions from school buses.
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