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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.

 

Resource Category
Asthma Friendly Policies
Resource Type
Document (PDF, Word, Excel)
Target Audience
Other

Leading the Way to Better Breathing: Managed Care Organizations and Asthma Home Visiting Services in California

Sponsoring Program Name
Regional Asthma Management and Prevention
Supporting managed care organizations in California – and organizations working with those MCOs – in improving asthma management for MCO members through asthma home visiting services.
Resource Category
Other
Resource Type
Booklet
Language
English
Literacy Level
Above 6th Grade
Target Audience
Other

"It's Asthma" Infographic Series

“It’s Asthma” is a tailored health education resource targeted toward adolescents and emerging adults with asthma that provides information about indoor environmental asthma triggers and strategies to reduce exposure to these triggers. “It’s Asthma” consists of six infographics that focus on five common indoor environmental asthma triggers (i.e., secondhand smoke, pets, mold, dust mites, and pests), and can be used to assist adolescents and emerging adults with their asthma management. DeAndra Morris, an ASPPH/EPA Environmental Health Fellow hosted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Indoor Environments Division, has created the “It’s Asthma” Infographic Series as part of her participation and training in the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) Public Health Fellowship Program.
Resource Category
Education/Outreach Materials
Resource Type
Other
Language
English
Target Audience
Other

Building Systems to Sustain Home-Based Asthma Services

Sponsoring Program Name
National Center for Healthy Housing
Building Systems to Sustain Home-Based Asthma Services is a new eLearning and technical assistance platform designed to equip staff in public health agencies, state asthma-control programs, state Medicaid agencies, and other housing and health organizations with information about how to build the systems, infrastructure, and financing to put home-based asthma services in place in their own states, communities, or regions.
Resource Category
Community Health/Outreach Worker Tool
Education/Outreach Materials
Environmental Assessment/Checklist
Implementation Guide
Program Management/Evaluation
Protocol
Quality Improvement
Other
Resource Type
Training Materials
Training/Educational Kit
Other
Language
English
Literacy Level
Above 6th Grade
Target Audience
Asthma Educator
Asthma Program Evaluator
Asthma Program Manager
Community Health Worker
Community Organization
Day Care Personnel
General Community
Landlord/Housing Personnel
Other Health Care Provider
Parent/Caregiver
Physician
School Personnel
Tenant
Other

Healthy Home Evaluator (HHE) certification for home contractors

Sponsoring Program Name
Building Performance Institute
The Healthy Home Evaluator (HHE) is a certification for home performance and energy efficiency professionals. The HHE was developed in partnership with the Green & Healthy Homes Initiative (GHHI). An HHE assesses home-based environmental health and safety hazards and provides a prioritized list of recommendations to address those hazards for the homeowner.
Resource Type
Other
Target Audience
Asthma Program Manager
Community Health Worker
Community Organization
General Community
Landlord/Housing Personnel
Other Health Care Provider
Other

Asthma in Children Infographic: Symptoms, Triggers and Treatments

An infographic from Home Clean Expert that visually explains the symptoms, triggers and treatments of childhood asthma.
File Attachment
asthma-in-children-infographic.jpg (675.83 KB)
Resource Category
Education/Outreach Materials
Resource Type
Website
Language
English
Target Audience
Adolescent With Asthma
Asthma Educator
Asthma Program Evaluator
Asthma Program Manager
Child With Asthma
Community Health Worker
Community Organization
Day Care Personnel
General Asthma Population
General Community
Landlord/Housing Personnel
Other Health Care Provider
Parent/Caregiver
Physician
School Personnel
Tenant
Other

Community Health Workers: Roles and Opportunities in Health Care Delivery System Reform

Sponsoring Program Name
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
John E. Snyder, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, January 2016
This report reviews select health services research findings on Community Health Worker (CHW) utilization that are relevant to U.S. policymakers and considers the key challenges to fully realizing the potential for CHWs to improve health care delivery.

File Attachment
CHWPolicy.pdf (676.24 KB)
Resource Category
Other
Resource Type
Document (PDF, Word, Excel)
Language
English
Literacy Level
Don't Know
Target Audience
Other

Childhood Asthma Rates Level Off, But Racial Disparities Remain

Childhood asthma rates appear to have stopped rising among many U.S. groups, but not among the poorest kids or children aged 10 and older, a study by Lara J. Akinbami, Alan E. Simon, and Lauren M. Rossen suggests.
Resource Category
Other
Resource Type
Other
Language
English
Target Audience
Adolescent With Asthma
Child With Asthma
General Asthma Population
Other

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