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Asthma Awareness Month Event Planning Kit

Sponsoring Program: 
EPA Asthma Team
This Event Planning Kit will equip state and local asthma programs to hold virtual and community-based awareness and action events during Asthma Awareness Month.

Each May, thousands of organizations join together for Asthma Awareness Month to increase public awareness of the asthma epidemic and to take action to get asthma under control in communities across the nation. Asthma affects over 25 million people of all ages and races. And, though asthma is widespread, public awareness of common asthma triggers and effective asthma management strategies remains limited.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) developed this Event Planning Kit to equip state and local asthma programs to hold virtual and community-based awareness and action events during Asthma Awareness Month. Inside you will find ideas and helpful tips for planning and running powerful virtual and community asthma events. Be sure to check out the event spotlights to learn about successful efforts other communities have had in the past.

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Resource Category: 
Education/Outreach Materials
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Unlocking the Power of Home-Based Asthma Services: Model Health Benefit Packages 

Sponsoring Program Name: 
Regional Asthma Management & Prevention and National Center for Healthy Housing
Unlocking the Power of Home-Based Asthma Services: Model Health Benefit Packages equips managed care organizations (MCOs) or other healthcare payers with the information they need to improve asthma management among their enrollees by ensuring the provision of asthma home visiting services. This new resource describes the scope, staffing, and services associated with home-based asthma services that identify and address environmental asthma triggers in the home environment. The tool includes tiers of services (e.g., from a very basic set of services to more premium sets of services) to provide a range of options for payers at different levels of readiness to provide home-based asthma services and includes recommendations to support action from a range of critical stakeholders.  

NEW Resource to Support Home-Based Asthma Services Now Available! 

 

Asthma home visiting services are a proven method for improving health outcomes, lowering healthcare utilization costs, improving patient care, and reducing healthcare disparities; yet far too many people with poorly controlled asthma don’t have access to these key interventions. Developed by Regional Asthma Management & Prevention and the National Center for Healthy Housing, Unlocking the Power of Home-Based Asthma Services: Model Health Benefit Packages equips managed care organizations (MCOs) or other healthcare payers with the information they need to improve asthma management among their enrollees by ensuring the provision of asthma home visiting services. It also addresses the key roles that other community, state, and federal stakeholders play in motivating and supporting healthcare payers in this effort. 

 

Unlocking the Power of Home-Based Asthma Services: Model Health Benefit Packages describes the scope, staffing, and services associated with home-based asthma services that identify and address environmental asthma triggers in the home environment. The tool includes tiers of services (e.g., from a very basic set of services to more premium sets of services) to provide a range of options for payers at different levels of readiness to provide home-based asthma services and includes recommendations to support action from a range of critical stakeholders. 

 

Learn more about this tool and the technical assistance opportunities here.  

Contact Name: 
Anne Kelsey Lamb
Contact Email: 
anne@rampasthma.org
Contact Phone: 
4152058768
Resource Category: 
Asthma Friendly Policies
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Other

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