Government

Asthma control efforts will be accomplished through implementation of process objectives and action steps organized into four strategic focus areas:

State of NH Division of Public Health Asthma Control Program

The Utah Asthma Program is located at the Utah Department of Health in the Bureau of Health Promotion. It began in December 2001 with the intent to develop state capacity to address asthma, including an occupational component. The program is funded through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Maine Asthma Prevention and Control Program is a State program aimed at reducing the burden of asthma in Maine, raising awareness of the cost associated with asthma, increasing patient self-management, and decreasing asthma in disparate populations through the use if best-practice interventions within the system of public health.

A private corporation which has a very public mission. Moreover, that mission has expanded in scale and scope over the last three decades. Incorporated in 1965, the agency came into being as part of a nationwide, federally-funded, community action movement whose focus was to intimately involve poor people in developing their own solutions to persistent poverty.

State of Connecticut, Department of Publicl Health CDC funded in-home asthma program focusing on patient/family self-management asthma education and identification and mitigation of environmental exposures that exacerbate asthma in order to reduce asthma-related adverse events.

The NYS Asthma Program is implemented through an internal cross agency infrastructure focusing on surveillance, health care delivery and quality, community based initiatives and environmental and occupational health; and through the Asthma Partnership of New York, a public/private collaboration with the NYSDOH, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, the CDC and key statewide and national stakeholders

The New York State (NYS) Healthy Neighborhoods Program (HNP) seeks to reduce the burden of housing related illness, and asthma in particular, through a holistic healthy homes approach and strategic partnerships with clinical services. Five key features distinguish the program. The NYS HNP:

The Healthy Neighborhoods Program is a free in-home health and safety assessment and intervention program for residents of targeted areas of Niagara County, NY. Public Health Technicians come to the home and assist the resident in identifying health and safety hazards, asthma triggers, indoor pollutants and potential lead poisoning problem areas. Free smoke detectors, carbon monoxide detectors, asthma relief products and cleaning products may all be available to the resident according to need. There is no paperwork to fill out, no ecoomic maximum or minumum requirements. For an apppointment, call (716) 439-7479.(716)278-8292, M-F, 8:30 am - 4:00 pm.