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Learn about the harmful health risks of secondhand smoke to children. You can protect your children by making your home and car smoke-free. You can get your own Smoke-free Home Pledge Certificate by clicking on the "I Want to Pledge" button. Proudly display this to let your children, family and visitors know you have taken an important step to keep your home and car smoke-free.

This outline provides an overview of how to develop an Asthma Days Event at a local provider office.

The Virginia Asthma Action Plan is a document orginally developed as the Southeastern Virginia Asthma Action Plan by the Consortium for Infant and Child Health (CINCH). The plan is updated yearly and is intended for use for school age children. Schools and physician practices can print and make available the form. Copies in triplicate are available to schools and providers in southeastern Virgi

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The free Asthma Learning Tool (a.k.a Asthma Quiz) teaches the basic aspects of asthma care in 30 minutes. It has been used for review by office nurses, public health nurses, nurse practitioners, school nurses, respiratory therapists, pharmacists and asthma case managers. Nursing and nurse practitioner students have used it in their formal training programs.

The Smokefree Apartment House Registry at www.smokefreeapartments.org provides a free listing of non-smoking apartments which are located in non-smoking buildings. There is also information for landlords and tenants about the legality of non-smoking residential buildings. The service is free.

Interactive data base with asthma prevalence, hospitalization and mortality data available. Custom tables can be built using a variety of variables (e.g., age, race, sex, region)

National data on childhood asthma prevalence, health care use, and mortality by race/ethnicity and age group, 1980-2005

AOEC provides educational modules on various aspects of occupational and environmental asthma

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