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Studies indicate that when those three evidence-based public health interventions are packaged and provided to children, they have the potential to yield a positive return on investment. Health Investments that Pay Off: Strategies for Addressing Asthma in Children examines the interventions, which have been found to reduce emergency department visits and hospitalizations, improve asthma control, decrease the frequency of symptoms, decrease work and school absenteeism and improve quality of life.

“Asthma cannot presently be prevented or cured, but people who have asthma can live a symptom-free, fully active life with proper treatment and services, beginning at an early age,” said NGA Executive Director Dan Crippen. “To improve health outcomes among children and reduce medical expenses, governors can incorporate interventions into their overall agenda for state health care transformation.”

Governors can take the following actions to implement and finance asthma-based interventions:

·Use a broad range of qualified providers to support effective and efficient delivery of asthma services;

·Encourage collaboration and resource sharing across public and private programs and sectors;

·Use health insurers to improve clinical management and payment for services; and

·Build efficiency and sustainability for the interventions through evaluations.

 To learn more about the NGA Center for Best Practices Health Division, please visit www.nga.org/cms/center/health 

We are excited to announce that in collaboration with Frontiers in Public Health, section Public Health Education and Promotion, we are organizing a Research Topic titled "Online Training for Public Health Capacity Building among Professionals Working with Youth”.

As host editors, we would like to encourage you to contribute to this topic. Please find more information about Research Topics below, including the publishing fees that apply. You can also visit the homepage we have created on the Frontiers website, which defines the focus of the topic, and where all published articles will appear.

http://www.frontiersin.org/Public_Health_Education_and_Promotion/researchtopics/Online_Training_for_Public_Hea/3975

Please note the submission deadlines for this Research Topic are:

Abstracts - June 30, 2015
Full draft manuscripts - August 31, 2015
Revisions on accepted manuscripts - Dec 31, 2015

Should you wish to participate--and we hope that you will--we request that you submit an abstract in advance of any manuscript submission you choose to make.  The deadline for abstracts is identified at our Research Topic homepage and in the list above. Abstracts should be submitted from this webpage:

http://journal.frontiersin.org/researchtopic/online-training-for-public-health-capacity-building-among-professionals-working-with-youth-3975