Education/Outreach Materials

CDC Releases Community Health Status Indicators 2015

Sponsoring Program:

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention

Community Health Status Indicators 2015 (CHSI 2015) is an interactive Web application that produces health profiles for all 3,143 counties in the United States. Each profile includes key indicators of health outcomes, which describe the population health status of a county and factors that have the potential to influence health outcomes, such as social factors and the physical environment. CHSI 2015 includes new and enhanced features compared to earlier versions of the tool, including a feature that allows users to compare the value of each indicator with those of demographically similar counties, as well as to the U.S. as a whole, and a new summary comparison report which provides an "at a glance" view of how one county compares with its peers. Check out CHSI 2015 to see your county's health profile!

The social factors and the physical environment are especially important because they represent the conditions in which people are born, work, and play. Neighborhoods with affordable healthy food, safe and accessible housing, and quality employment opportunities can positively influence behaviors and help to create healthy lifestyles. The World Health Organization and others call the living conditions that can affect health and quality of life the “social determinants of health”.

Healthy People (HP) 2020 highlights the importance of addressing the social determinants of health by including as one of its four overarching goals, “Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all”. CHSI 2015 supports this goal by including a broad range of indicators, including multiple indicators related to the social and physical environment.

Check out CHSI 2015 today!

Contact Name:

CDC

Contact Phone:

(888) 232-6348

Resource Category:

Asthma Care Plan/Action Plan

Community Health/Outreach Worker Tool

Community Setting

Education/Outreach Materials

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Target Audience:

Community Health Worker

Community Organization

General Community

Other Health Care Provider

Health Investments that Pay Off: Strategies for Addressing Asthma in Children

Asthma is one of the most common chronic conditions in the United States, affecting nearly 1 in 11 children, costing the United States nearly $56 billion each year in 2007. To improve health outcomes and reduce asthma-related costs, states should consider augmenting high quality medical services with self-management education and home visiting programs, according to a paper released today by the National Governors Association (NGA).

Studies indicate that when those three evidence-based public health interventions are packaged and provided to children, they have the potential to yield a positive return on investment. Health Investments that Pay Off: Strategies for Addressing Asthma in Children examines the interventions, which have been found to reduce emergency department visits and hospitalizations, improve asthma control, decrease the frequency of symptoms, decrease work and school absenteeism and improve quality of life.

“Asthma cannot presently be prevented or cured, but people who have asthma can live a symptom-free, fully active life with proper treatment and services, beginning at an early age,” said NGA Executive Director Dan Crippen. “To improve health outcomes among children and reduce medical expenses, governors can incorporate interventions into their overall agenda for state health care transformation.”

Governors can take the following actions to implement and finance asthma-based interventions:

·Use a broad range of qualified providers to support effective and efficient delivery of asthma services;

·Encourage collaboration and resource sharing across public and private programs and sectors;

·Use health insurers to improve clinical management and payment for services; and

·Build efficiency and sustainability for the interventions through evaluations.

To learn more about the NGA Center for Best Practices Health Division, please visit www.nga.org/cms/center/health

File Attachment:

NGAPaper_HealthInvestmentsThatPayOff.pdf

Contact Name:

Elena Waskey

Contact Email:

ewaskey@nga.org

Contact Phone:

202-624-5301

Resource Category:

Asthma Care Plan/Action Plan

Asthma Friendly Policies

Community Setting

Education/Outreach Materials

Resource Type:

Document (PDF, Word, Excel)

Language:

English

Target Audience:

Adolescent With Asthma

Child With Asthma

Community Organization

General Asthma Population

General Community

Reducing Enviromental Triggers in the Home – FREE Online training

Sponsoring Program:

Minnesota Department of Health – Asthma Program

The Minnesota Department of Health would like you to be aware of the “new” URL to the online training: Reducing Environmental Asthma Triggers in the home. Go to: https://apps.health.state.mn.us/asthmahealthyhomes/

Reducing Enviromental Triggers in the Home – FREE Online training

The program is designed for public health nurses and certified asthma educators (AE-C) and anyone else interesed in learning about reducing asthma triggers in the home.

Two Part Training:

Part 1 – 40 minute training - includes a walk through home assessment exercise to explain steps to reduce or eliminate found triggers.

· Review indoor triggers

· How to identify these triggers

· Steps to reduce these triggers

Part 2 – Resource Section - includes printable information on topics covered in the video and tools to use while conducting a home assessment.

· Training topics

· Asthma basics

· Medical Management

· Home assessment tools

Contact Name:

Kelly A. Raatz