Video (VHS or DVD)

These guidelines are aimed at integrating environmental management of asthma into pediatric health care. These documents outline competencies in environmental health relevant to pediatric asthma that should be mastered by health care providers, and outlines the environmental interventions that should be communicated to patients. The interventions solutions are organized by environmental triggers.

For Health care professionals: CRCE courses, kiosk setup for patient education, patient instruction handouts and smartphone apps.

For Asthma and COPD patients - training videos, real time practice with the onscreen instructor, recording and sharing their techniques with physicians for further review and recommendation

Listen to a 36-minute panel discussion about reducing the burden of asthma. Panelists provide insights into ways for parents and caregivers to help their children control asthma symptoms.

The discussion is hosted by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute in partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Impact DC.

Moderator:

Dr. Stephen Teach, Children's National Medical Center

Panelists:

Tracey Mitchell, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Dr. James Kiley, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
Dr. Suzanne Beavers, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention