Asthma Educator

The Clinician Asthma Toolkit provides clinical education on diagnosing and managing asthma, reproducible patient education materials, and office support tools.

How the CHW is help person with asthma rid home of rodents

Protocol used by CHW when pets are present in a home where a person has asthma.

mold protocol

Document home visit activites by CHW.

information for different audiences on cleaning to control indoor allergens

The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) has established a blueprint for taking action against asthma in California through the Strategic Plan for Asthma in California 2008-2012. The Plan is a roadmap developed collaboratively by government agencies, asthma experts, community groups, and others to improve asthma prevention, treatment, policy, data, and public education. Starting with it

This video features medical professionals, families and children living with asthma. The medical professionals discuss the role of the environment in triggering and worsening asthma attacks and the families and children describe what it is like to live with asthma.

EPA developed the Home Environment Checklist to help home care visitors by providing a list of questions and action steps to assist in the identification and mitigation of environmental asthma triggers commonly found in and around homes. The checklist is designed to allow home care visitors to focus on the specific activities or things in a room - in particular the asthma patient’s sleeping area - that might produce or harbor environmental triggers. The activities recommended in the checklist are generally simple and low cost.

How to correctly take inhaled medication.