Education/Outreach Materials

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/

The Green & Healthy Homes (GHHI) Healthy Homes Demonstration Project utilized the standards and practices created by GHHI: A Holistic Housing Assessment coupled with environmental health education and combined as an integrated environmental health and energy housing intervention for children with asthma, ages 2–14.

Since 1997, the “free care” rule has stated that Medicaid will not pay for services that are offered to the general public free of charge. The rule has stood as a significant barrier for schools to receive Medicaid reimbursement for health services provided to students enrolled in Medicaid. On December 15, 2014, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a letter to State Medicaid Directors informing them of a decision to withdraw prior regulatory guidance on the free care rule. The following Q&A explains how this important reversal of Medicaid policy will impact coverage of school-based interventions for low-income children with asthma.

The Asthma Awareness Patch Program was developed by the Asthma Coalition of Long Island with the collaboration of Girl Scouts of the USA and the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology.Learning about the respiratory system and how we breathe is the basis of the Asthma Awareness Patch Program. Empowering girls to take charge of their health can lead to increased self-esteem and responsible decision-making.

A new study challenges the widely held belief that inner-city children have a higher risk of asthma simply because of where they live. Race, ethnicity and income have much stronger effects on asthma risk than where children live, the Johns Hopkins Children's Center researchers reported. The investigators looked at more than 23,000 children, aged 6 to 17, across the United States and found that asthma rates were 13 percent among inner-city children and 11 percent among those in suburban or rural areas.
But that small difference vanished once other variables were factored in, according to the study published online Jan. 20 in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
Poverty increased the risk of asthma, as did being from certain racial/ethnic groups. Asthma rates were 20 percent for Puerto Ricans, 17 percent for blacks, 10 percent for whites, 9 percent for other Hispanics, and 8 percent for Asians, the study found.

Healthy Cleaning & Asthma-Safer Schools: A How-To Guide, is a new set of guidelines that helps school districts go green and save money by transitioning to asthma-safer cleaning products and practices.

This document provides building professionals with practical guidance to control moisture in buildings during design, construction and maintenance.

Material educativo que ayuda a familias con alergias y asma a eliminar los alérgenos que causan síntomas al interior del hogar, la escuela o en os lugares donde el niño juega.

A practical and family friendly tool to learn about the direct correlation between indoor air quality and improved allergy and asthma symptoms.

Green Cleaning, Sanitizing, and Disinfecting: A Toolkit for Early Care and Education is a set of materials for child care programs that provides educational information on choosing safer products, tools, procedures and policies for cleaning, sanitizing, and disinfecting in child care facilities.