Above 6th Grade

Asthma inequitably affects Tribal communities. Asthma home visiting services can help Tribes reduce asthma disparities while also addressing other challenges like poor housing quality and growing climate concerns including wildfire smoke. 

On Monday, June 3, 2024, Regional Asthma Management & Prevention (RAMP) hosted a webinar for participants to learn about: 

• In-home asthma services and how they improve respiratory health
• How different services can be built around current community programming
• No-cost resources available to help you move forward

Speakers included: 

• Shasta Gaughen, Director, Pala Environmental Department, Pala Band of Mission Indians.
• Shawn Blackshear, Environmental Public Health Director, Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board
• Anne Kelsey Lamb, Director, Regional Asthma Management & Prevention
• Joel Ervice, Associate Director, Regional Asthma Management & Prevention

Both English and Spanish versions of the webinar with closed captioning are available.

The American Lung Association released an issue brief on Telehealth & Implications for Asthma Care Coverage in Medicaid. The issue brief explores the regulations and policies that govern the use of telehealth in Medicaid programs, how those policies have changed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the experiences of state asthma programs applying telehealth to care for individuals with asthma, and opportunities for state asthma programs to collaborate with their respective Medicaid partners regarding telehealth and asthma coverage.

We discussed this issue brief, as well as our new data on coverage and barriers to guidelines-based asthma care in state Medicaid programs, on a webcast recorded on July 8, 2021. You can view a recording of that event, as well as find all of our resources for the Asthma Guidelines-Based Care Coverage Project, at Lung.org/asthma-care-coverage.

This document describes what e-cigarettes are, why they are a problem for people with asthma, and ways health care providers can help their patients quit using them.