"NLGA: Helping America Breathe
Easier - Asthma Awareness"
More Resources
American College of
Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology
http://www.acaai.org/public/lifeQuality/nasp/datesAndLocations.htm
Dates and locations of free asthma screenings
Asthma and Allergy Foundation
www.aafa.org
Free educational brochures, access to support
groups, asthma capitols.
www.transitionnow.org
A web site dedicated to information on the
transition to HFA inhalers
American Association of School
Administrators
www.aasa.org
Resources for schools re: asthma, including a
prepared educational Powerpoint for employees,
more.
American Lung Association
Lungs USA
Asthma-Friendly School toolkit, sample letters
to parents, smoke free policies, model policies
and resolutions, checklists for schools, nurses,
and patients, and the Asthma Friendly School
Initiative of the American Lung Association
Center for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC)
http://www.cdc.gov/asthma/default.htm
List of state asthma contacts. Free
information. Symptoms and other information.
Data and statistics.
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/lung/index.htm
Information for school and day care center
asthma planning.
Asthma Fact Sheet.
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/about/naepp/index.htm
National Asthma Education and Prevention Program
National
Conference of State Legislatures
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/environ/envHealth/asthmamain.htm
Database of all state asthma law
Partnership for Prescription Assistance
https://www.pparx.org/Intro.php
Qualifying patients who lack prescription
coverage can search 475 public and private
assistance programs to determine if prescription
drug assistance is available.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),
asthma home page
www.epa.gov/asthma/index.html
Information on environmental triggers, community
education material, information on planning a
World Asthma Day event (May 1, 2007), listing of
state by state events
Wake Forest University
http://www1.wfubmc.edu/articles/Asthma+Patients
Improving Treatment Compliance Among Asthma
Patients
Archives of Internal Medicine
http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/158/5/457
Findings of dozens of studies regarding asthma,
age, gender, ethnicity, etc.
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