Health Care Setting

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.

Following a brief, targeted educational intervention, pediatricians reported a significant increase in knowledge about environmental triggers of asthma and a willingness to incorporate exposure history questions and remediation recommendations in their routine practice. These improvements persisted at a 3-6 month follow-up interval compared to baseline levels. The findings were published in Clinical Pediatrics. The study was conducted by NEEF's Pediatric Asthma Faculty Champions using a standardized PowerPoint presentation based on NEEF's Environmental Management of Pediatric Asthma: Guidelines for Health Care Providers www.neefusa.org/health/asthma/asthmaguidelines. 

Improving Pediatrician Knoweldge About Environmental Triggers of Asthma--Roberts JR, Karr C, de Ybarrondo L, McCurdy LE, Freeland KD, Hulsey TC, Forman J. Clinical Pediatrics 2013 June; 52(6):523-30 

Draft encourages students to bring an asthma action plan to school and carry their inhalers. He also invites people with asthma to get others involved with their asthma management – teachers, friends, etc. The article includes a sidebar that asks readers to share their story at Chris’s web site www.asthmateam.org and watch his EPA Public Service Announcement video “Asthma Can Be Tackled.”