Asthma
in Children and Adolescents
Knowledge Path
Knowledge Path Table of Contents
- Websites
- Additional Electronic Resources
- Education Programs and Materials
- Databases: Data, Literature and Research, and Programs
- News and Commentary
Resources on Specific Aspects of Asthma Management
- Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs
- Community Services Locator
- Health Insurance and Access to Care
- Medications
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This knowledge path directs readers to a selection of current, high-quality resources about asthma in children and adolescents, its prevalence, and its impact on homes, schools, and communities. The knowledge path includes tools for improving asthma management and care and staying abreast of new developments in pediatric asthma research. It can be used by health professionals, program administrators, policymakers, researchers, and community advocates to learn more about the topic, for program development, and to locate training resources and information to answer specific questions. Separate sections point to resources about environmental triggers and medications and monitoring. Separate briefs focus on resources for families and resources about asthma management in school. The knowledge path has been compiled by the MCH Library at Georgetown University and will be updated periodically.
See Asthma and Children Fact Sheet (2010) by the American Lung Association (ALA), which briefly describes asthma symptoms, triggers, treatment, prevalence in the United States, mortality and hospitalizations, and health care costs, and the impact of asthma on school absenteeism. Also see the Child Trends data brief, Asthma (2010), which presents data about asthma in children and adolescents, including its prevalence, trends, and differences by gender, race and ethnicity, usual source of health care, type of insurance coverage, and food stamp receipt.
Important resource: The main guidelines for managing asthma are the Expert Panel Report 3: Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma (2007) by the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP).
- Agency
for Healthcare Research and Quality
(AHRQ).
Evidence-based information
on health care outcomes; quality;
and cost, use, and access. Links
to evidence
reports and research findings about
children and adolescents with asthma.
Presents a collection
of tools for states to assess
the quality of asthma care and
create quality-improvement strategies.
Includes an Asthma
Return-on-Investment (ROI) Calculator for
exploring potential financial returns
from quality-improvement and disease-management
programs. Offers access to the Healthcare
Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP),
the National Guideline
Clearinghouse (NGC),
and the National
Quality Measures Clearinghouse™ (NQMC).
Recent statistical briefs include
The Five Most Costly Children's Conditions, 2006: Estimates for the U.S. Civilian Noninstitutionalized Children, Ages 0–17. (2009).
- American
Academy of Allergy, Asthma and
Immunology (AAAAI).
Information about continuing education
and training opportunities and
research about pediatric asthma.
Includes practice-management resources,
policy statements, patient-education
materials, and a research-related
blog. Also see AAAAI's school
tools and the National
Allergy Bureau (NAB).
- American
Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): Section on Allergy and Immunology.
Information about education programs, clinical resources, and patient-education
materials. Also see AAP's program, Schooled
in Asthma.
- American
Lung Association (ALA).
Information about ALA's
research, education, and advocacy
efforts in the prevention,
diagnosis, management, and treatment
of asthma
in children and adolescents. Recent
publications include
National Asthma Public Policy Agenda. (2009). [Report].
State of Lung Disease in Diverse Communities. (2010). [Report].
Trends in Asthma Morbidity and Mortality. (2010). [Report]
Also see ALA's Asthma Educator Institute, State of the Air, and the Asthma-Friendly Schools Initiative (AFSI).
- Asthma
and Allergy Foundation of America
(AAFA). Educational
resources, patient-education
materials,
and
information
about AAFA's research and advocacy
activities and certification program
for asthma and allergy friendly
products.
- AsthmaCommunityNetwork.org.
Information about community asthma
programs, webinars, an events calendar, and an online tool for
improving community asthma care. Includes information about and presentations
from the annual National
Asthma Forum. Interact with
colleagues via discussion forums, a blog, and a series of polls. AsthmaCommunityNetwork.org
is designed for community-based asthma programs and organizations that
sponsor them. The network is supported by the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA).
- Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Asthma.
Information and materials about pediatric asthma for health professionals,
public health professionals, researchers, education
professionals, and families. Resources and initiatives include
Asthma Surveillance Data. Links to data on asthma prevalence, attacks, management, days of work or school lost, emergency room visits, and hospitalizations due to asthma.
Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). Reports that summarize data submitted to CDC weekly by state health departments. Search for reports by entering asthma in the search field and a publication date range. Click on Search to get your results.
National Asthma Control Program. Program highlights, guides, and state asthma contacts and programs for this national initiative that aims to reduce the number of deaths, hospitalizations, emergency department visits, school or work days missed, and limitations on activities due to asthma.
Also see CDC's National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH).
- Childhood
Asthma Research and Education (CARE)
Network.
Information about clinical
trials to evaluate treatments
for children with asthma. Sponsored
by the National
Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
(NHLBI), CARE
is comprised of five clinical centers
and a data-coordination center.
- Healthy
People 2020. Information about this national health-promotion
and disease-prevention initiative of the Department
of Health and Human Services. View the overview, objectives,
and recommended interventions and resources for respiratory
diseases and environmental
health.
- National
Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). Program
information, clinical guidelines, and education tools about asthma including
the seminar, Physician Asthma Care Education (PACE).
Resources and initiatives include
National Asthma Control Initiative (NACI). Information about and resources to support this initiative to improve asthma care, asthma control, and quality of life for people with asthma by engaging health professionals, consumers, schools and child care centers, professional associations, and others to overcome barriers to implementing the following guidelines:
Expert Panel Report 3: Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma (2007).
Guidelines Implementation Panel Report for Expert Panel Report 3: Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma. Partners Putting Guidelines into Action (2008).
NACI is an initiative of the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP), the program that developed the guidelines and report. Also see NACI's In the Know eNewsletter and Keeping Airways Open—Take Action: Stop Asthma Today! What You Can Do, NOW (2010).
- National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID): Asthma.
Information about research to understand how the environment, allergens,
and genetics interact with the body's own immune system to cause
asthma and aggravate symptoms.
Additional Electronic Resources
- Brown MH. 2009. Allies Against Asthma: A Program to Combine Clinical and Public Health Approaches
to Chronic Illness. Princeton, NJ: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). [Report].
- Leigh WA, Wheatley AL. 2009. Trends in Child Health 1997-–2006: Assessing Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Asthma. Washington, DC: Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. [Issue brief].
- Lyon M, Markus AR, Rosenbaum S. 2010. The Affordable Care Act, Medical Homes, and Childhood Asthma: A Key Opportunity
for Progress. New York, NY: RCHN Community Health Foundation. [Policy brief].
- Markus AR, Lyon M, Rosenbaum S. 2010. Changing PO2licy: The Elements for Improving Childhood Asthma Outcomes. Washington, DC: George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services. [Report]. The RCHN Community Health Foundation presented a video about asthma in children and adolescents to accompany the report's release.
Education Programs and Materials
- American
Lung Association (ALA): Asthma Educator Institute. Information about this 2-day preparatory course for those qualified to take
the National Asthma Educator Certification Board (NAECB) examination.
- Asthma and Allergy
Foundation of America (AAFA): Educational Resources. Education
programs and materials for health professionals and families. Some resources
are available in Spanish.
- Maternal and Child Health Training Program: Pediatric Pulmonary Centers. Information about and links to university-based centers funded to prepare health
professionals to develop or improve community-based, family-centered health
care for children with chronic respiratory diseases, such as asthma. The
training program is part of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB). The centers collaborated in the development of
Cross Cultural Health Care: Case Studies. (2009). [Online tutorials].
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI): Physician Asthma Care Education (PACE). Multimedia educational seminar designed to improve physician awareness, ability,
and use of communication and therapeutic techniques for reducing the effects
of asthma on children and their families. The seminar also provides instruction
on
how
to document and code asthma counseling and on how to improve reimbursement for
it.
- See the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) PowerPoint
presentation and speaker notes, Asthma:
A Presentation of Asthma Management and Prevention, rev. ed. (2009).
- See the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF) for education programs and resources for health professionals about environmental
asthma triggers.
- See the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (AAAAI) and the American
Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): Section on Allergy and Immunology for continuing education information.
- See AsthmaCommunityNetwork.org: Community Programs for information
about several asthma education programs.
- See the MCH Library family resource brief, Asthma in Kids and Teens.
The databases listed below are excellent tools for identifying data, additional literature and research, and programs about asthma in children and adolescents. Many of the entries below contain tips on how to use the databases efficiently. Please note that databases vary in how terms should be entered; for example, some require quotation marks and others don't. Enter search phrases as shown in bold below.
- Data
Resource Center for Child and Adolescent
Health (DRC). Data
from the National Survey of Children's
Health, 2003 and 2007, and the
National Survey of Children with
Special
Health Care Needs, 2001 and 2005/2006.
For data about asthma, see the
search box for the National Survey
of Children with
Special
Health Care Needs, 2001 & 2005/2006, and select Condition-Specific. Choose a state or nationwide, select a report format, and select a condition
(i.e., asthma). Click on Next
to get your profile. DRC is a project
of the Child and Adolescent Health
Measurement Initiative (CAHMI).
- Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP): HCUPnet. Health statistics and information on hospital inpatient and emergency department
utilization at the national, regional, and state levels, including use of
hospitals by children. To identify data about hospital use related to asthma
in children and adolescents, select National Statistics on Children. Select
Researcher, medical professional. Under type of query, select Statistics
on specific diagnoses or procedures. Select a year (e.g., 2006). Select Diagnoses
grouped by Clinical Classifications Software (CCS). Select Principal diagnosis.
Under the field, Browse all CCS categories, scroll to 128 Asthma. Click on
Next. Select the outcomes and measures of interest (e.g., Number of discharges)
and click on Next. Select patient and hospital characteristics
(e.g., All patients in all hospitals) and click on Next. View your results.
HCUP is an initiative of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
- Health Data Interactive. Data tables with national health statistics. Tables can be customized by age,
gender, race/ethnicity, and geographic location. Enter asthma in the Search Tables box and click on
Go for data about asthma prevalence and asthma-related hospital discharges,
emergency department visits, and mortality. HDI is a service of the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).
- National
Quality Measures Clearinghouse™ (NQMC).
Evidence-based health-care-quality
measures and measure sets for physicians,
hospitals, and health plans to evaluate
and improve the quality of health care
for consumers. Identify measures about
asthma in children and adolescents by
selecting Advanced Search. Type asthma in the Keyword
field of the search form. Scroll
down on the search form to select Age
Range (e.g., Adolescent, Child, Infant).
Click on Show results at the bottom of
the
form. The database is
sponsored by the Agency
for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
- Title
V Information System (Title V IS).
Data from annual Title
V Block Grant applications and
reports submitted by all 59 U.S.
states and jurisdictions. To learn
about states' efforts to address
asthma in children and adolescents,
conduct two searches. Select Measurement
and Indicator Data and go to the
State Data section. Select State
Priority Needs Keyword Search and
choose Keyword: Asthma and Population:
Children (1 through 21). Click
on Start Search to get your results.
Go back to the home page and select
Measurement and Indicator Data.
Under State Data, select State
Performance Measures and click
on Search by Keyword/Population.
Select Keyword: Asthma and Population:
Children (1 through 21). Click
on Start Search to get your results.
Title V IS is a service of the Maternal
and Child Health Bureau (MCHB).
- Also see CDC's Asthma Surveillance Data and Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Reports (MMWR); Community Health Status Indicators (CHSI); and County Health Rankings.
- ClinicalTrials.gov.
Information about
clinical research studies for a wide
range of diseases and conditions, including
asthma. Included are a summary of the
purpose of the study, recruiting status,
criteria for patient participation,
location of the trial, and contact
information. To identify asthma-related
studies, select Search for Clinical
Trials. Select Advanced Search. Enter asthma in the Search Terms field. Scroll to Age Group and select Child. Click on Search to get your results. ClinicalTrials.gov is
a service of the National
Institutes of Health (NIH).
- Cochrane Reviews. Abstracts for systematic reviews of health care interventions internationally. Go to the box, Search abstracts & summaries, and enter asthma AND (children OR adolescents). Click on Search Reviews to get your results. Access
to the full-text article requires
a subscription that is available
in many hospital and university
health sciences libraries. The
database is published by the Cochrane
Collaboration, an international
nonprofit organization based in
the United Kingdom.
- Database
of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects
(DARE).
Summaries of systematic
reviews that have met strict quality
criteria. Included reviews must
be about the effects of interventions used in health care and social services.
Each summary also provides a critical
commentary on the quality of the
review. Type asthma AND (children OR adolescents) in the
search field and click on Search
to identify abstracts about asthma.
DARE is produced and maintained
by the Centre
for Reviews and Dissemination at
the University of York.
- MCH Library at
the National
Center for Education in Maternal
and Child Health (NCEMCH),
Georgetown University. Databases
to collect, manage, and disseminate
knowledge about
maternal and child health (MCH),
with special emphasis on knowledge
gained from initiatives and programs
supported by the Maternal
and Child Health Bureau (MCHB).
The library's bibliographic database
is
MCHLine®. An online catalog of materials in the MCH Library with several items about asthma. To identify them, type asthma in the keyword field of the database search form. To narrow your search, enter a single publication year or range of years, or add another keyword (e.g., school).
The MCH Library also offers organizations and programs databases.
- National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC). Evidence-based clinical practice
guidelines and related materials for health professionals. Identify guidelines
about asthma in children and adolescents by
selecting Advanced Search. Type asthma in the Keyword
field of the search form. Scroll
down on the search form to select Age
Range (e.g., Adolescent, Child, Infant).
Click on Show results at the bottom of
the
form. The database is an initiative of
the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tool
(RePORT): RePORTER. Access to reports, data, and analyses of NIH research activities, including
information on NIH expenditures and the results of NIH-supported research.
To identify information about asthma in children and adolescents, conduct
two searches. First, enter asthma children in the search field and click
on Submit query to get your results. Conduct a second search by entering asthma adolescents in the search field and clicking on Submit query to
get your results. Narrow your searches by selecting a state or adding terms
to other search fields.
- PubMed.
Over 20 million citations for biomedical articles from MEDLINE
and life science journals. Citations
include links to full-text articles
from PubMed Central or publisher websites
when available. To identify articles on the topic, enter the term asthma in
the search box. Click on Limits
and make the following selections on
the page: select a date (e.g. Published
in the last 2 years); click on Languages:
English; click
on Ages: All Child; and select Search
Field Tags: MeSH Major Topic. Click
on Search to get your results. To narrow
your search further or for additional
searches, use
the MeSH
(Medical Subject Headings) database
to identify terms (e.g., asthma
AND patient education, asthma
AND school, asthma AND smoking, asthma
AND marijuana (remove the
search limits for this search only)).
PubMed is a service of the National
Library of Medicine (NLM).
- Also see TOXNET and the Healthy Housing Clearinghouse.
- AsthmaCommunityNetwork.org: Community Programs. Information about more than 500 community asthma programs in the nation. Search by zip code, state, program type, and program name to find a program.
- Community Pediatrics Grants Database. Archive of community pediatrics grant projects. Identify projects by selecting
Asthma in the Topics field. Click on Advanced Submit to get your results.
The database is a service of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).
- Discretionary Grant Information System (DGIS). Information for more than 900 grants issued by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB). To identify grants about asthma, select Abstracts. Type asthma in the search
field. Click on Search to get your results. To find products and publications
produced by MCHB training grantees, select Program Data, Training, and Search
Products and Publications. Type asthma in the search field and click on Search to get your results.
- Health Services Research Projects in Progress (HSRProj). Information about ongoing health services research and public health projects.
To identify projects, enter asthma AND (children OR adolescents) in the
search box. Click on Search to get your results. HSRProj is funded by the National Library of Medicine (NLM).
- MCH Library at
the National
Center for Education in Maternal
and Child Health (NCEMCH),
Georgetown University. Two databases
to identify organizations and programs
focusing on asthma
in children and adolescents:
MCH Organizations Database. Information about government, professional, and voluntary organizations involved in MCH activities, primarily at a national level. To identify asthma-related organizations, type asthma in the keyword field of the database search form.
MCH Projects Database. An online catalog of projects funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) through October 1, 2002. To identify projects related to asthma in children and adolescents, type asthma in the abstract field of the database search form. Conduct a second search by typing "pediatric pulmonary center" in the abstract field of the database search form. Also see MCH Training Program: Pediatric Pulmonary Centers.
- National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO): Model Practices. Information about model and promising state and local public health program
practices. For effective programs to address
asthma in children and adolescents, select Model Practice
Database. Enter asthma in the Search by Keyword field. Click on Submit to get your results.
- Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease: Promising Practices. Information about public and private programs from across the country
that have proven successful in improving health and health behaviors and
reducing the burden of disease, including asthma. To identify programs, look
under Find Programs and click on Asthma under Select a Health Topic. Click
on
Go to get your results.
- Prevention Research Centers (PRC): Research Projects. Information about research projects conducted by CDC-funded Prevention Research
Centers, which work as an interdependent network of community, academic,
and public health partners to conduct prevention research and promote the
wide use of practices proven to promote good health. To identify projects
about asthma, click on Find research project descriptions that meet specified
criteria. Select Health Topics: Asthma, and select Age Group: Infants, Children,
Adolescents. Click
on Search to get your results.
- Also see CDC's National Asthma Control Program.
- AsthmaCommunityNetwork.org. Click on INTERACT to communicate with colleagues from community-based asthma programs and sponsoring organizations via discussion forums, a blog, and a series of polls.
- National Asthma Control Initiative (NACI): In the Know eNewsletter. This quarterly electronic newsletter presents strategies, resources, and networking opportunities to advance best practices in asthma care and management.
- See the MCH Library family resource brief Asthma in Kids and Teens.
- See the MCH Library school resource brief Asthma Management.
Resources on Specific Aspects of Asthma Management
- AIRNow. National air-quality information, including daily forecasts and real-time
conditions for many cities across the United States. Offers publications about air quality and health. Sign up for EnviroFlash to receive a daily e-mail with an air-quality forecast and suggested safety
measures when levels are unhealthy. AIRNow is a collaborative effort among
several federal agencies, news media, and tribal, state, and local agencies.
- American Lung Association (ALA): State of the Air. An annual report card and supporting resources on air pollution in communities across the nation.
- Asthma Regional Council (ARC) of New England. Reports, guidelines, meeting materials, and other resources about asthma management,
healthy homes, indoor and ambient air quality, integrated pest management,
and asthma surveillance. ARC aims to reduce the impact of asthma across New England, through collaboration with health, housing, education, and environmental organizations with a particular focus on the contribution of schools, homes, and communities to the disease and with attention to its disproportionate impact on populations at greatest risk. Recent reports include
Investing in Best Practices for Asthma: A Business Case, rev. ed. (2010). [Report].
Role of Pest Control in Effective Asthma Management: A Business Case. (2009). [Report].
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): National Center for Environmental
Health. Information about asthma triggers. Initiatives include
National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network. A surveillance tool for tracking environmental exposures and chronic health conditions, such as asthma.
Also see The Community Guide: Asthma Control for recommendations about home-based, multi-trigger, multi-component environmental interventions.
- Children's Environmental Health Centers (CEHCs). Information about research investigating how environmental factors, such as
air pollutants and secondhand smoke, may affect the development of asthma or the exacerbation of asthma symptoms in children and adolescents. Read about research results, download fact sheets, and view video clips. CEHCs are supported by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
- Clean Air Task Force (CATF). Reports, maps, and information about programs to address climate change, diesel
emissions, and coal plant emissions. CATF is a nonprofit organization dedicated
to reducing atmospheric pollution through research, advocacy, and private
sector collaboration. Publications include
The Toll from Coal: An Updated Assessment of Death and Disease from America's Dirtiest Energy Source. (2010). [Report].
- Community Health Status Indicators (CHSI). County-specific data on health-status indicators obtained from several federal
agencies. Use the indicators to compare a county with counties similar in population
composition and selected demographics and to characterize the
overall health
of a county and its citizens to support health planning. In the left sidebar,
select a state and county and click on Display Data. Select Environmental
Health to view whether national air-quality standards have been met. CHSI
is a service of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
- County Health Rankings. Data profiles of the counties within each of the 50 states. Counties are ranked
according to their health outcomes and the multiple health factors that determine
a county’s health, including the number of air pollution particulate matter
days and the number of air pollution ozone days. The Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation is collaborating with the University of
Wisconsin
Population
Health
Institute to develop these rankings.
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Asthma. A wealth of information for health professionals, families, community advocates,
and the media about indoor and outdoor environmental factors that trigger asthma.
Resources for families include fact sheets, brochures, materials for children,
and checklists about how to eliminate asthma triggers in homes. Resources for
health professionals include new asthma studies and materials for helping consumers
manage environmental asthma triggers. Also includes information about community
outreach and education programs, video clips, and public service announcements
about asthma. Some materials are available in Spanish. Initiatives include
Asthma Awareness Month. A kit containing materials for planning community asthma-education events for Asthma Awareness Month each May.
- National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH). Information about and resources to support research, education, training, and policies for public health and housing professionals to promote practical and cost-effective methods for making homes healthier. Topics include identifying and removing asthma triggers in the home. NCHH is supported by the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC),
the Department
of Housing and Urban Development
(HUD),
and the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA).
Resources include
State Laws Related to Healthy Homes. Links to the provisions of state statutes or codes that are related to healthy homes, including those that address asthma triggers. This resource was developed by NCHH and the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL).
Healthy Housing Clearinghouse. An online catalog of journal articles, reports, and other materials about the connection between health and housing and safety hazards in the home. Type asthma in the keyword field and click on Search to identify publications on the topic.
Pediatric Environmental Home Assessment: Tools for Public Health and Visiting Nurses. Forms for public health and visiting nurses to use to identify potential environmental hazards in homes and to address those hazards. Also offers an online training module, with video clips and photos, for conducting a pediatric environmental home assessment.
- National Children's Study. Information about this
study to examine the effects of
environmental influences on the
health and development of more
than 100,000 children and adolescents
across the United States, following
them from before birth until age
21. The goal of the study is to
improve children's health and well-being and to improve the prevention and
treatment of health problems such as asthma. The study is being led by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and
Human Development in collaboration
with a consortium of federal government partners.
- National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF): Pediatric Asthma Initiative. Guidelines, PowerPoint presentations, and an environmental history form in English and Spanish to integrate environmental management of asthma into pediatric health care. The initiative is supported by several federal agencies.
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS): Asthma. Information about research on how the environment influences the development
and exacerbation of asthma. Includes general information for families
and educators about asthma and its environmental triggers. Recent resources
include
A Human Health Perspective on Climate Change: A Report Outlining the Research Needs on the Human Health Effects of Climate Change. (2010). [White paper]. One of the main sections covers asthma, respiratory allergies, and airway diseases.
- National Library of Medicine (NLM): TOXNET (Toxicology Data Network). Collection of databases with bibliographic citations and data covering toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases. Databases include the Household Products Database and the Hazardous Substances Data Bank. Conduct a search by entering asthma AND (children OR adolescents) in the Search All Databases field. Click on Search to get your results.
- HEI Panel on the Health Effects of Traffic-Related Air Pollution. 2010. Traffic-Related Air Pollution: A Critical Review of the Literature on Emissions,
Exposure, and Health Effects. Boston, MA: Health Effects Institute. [Report].
- Institute of Medicine (IOM). 2000. Clearing the Air: Asthma and Indoor Air Exposures. Washington, DC: National Academies Press. [Book].
- Office of the Surgeon General. 2010. How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease: The Biology and
Behavioral Basis for
Smoking-Attributable Disease. A Report of the
Surgeon General. Rockville, MD: Office of the Surgeon General. [Report, Executive summary, Consumer booklet, Clinician sheet, E-card].
- Office of the Surgeon General. 2009. The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Promote Healthy Homes. Rockville, MD: Office of the Surgeon General.
- Also see AAAAI's National Allergy Bureau (NAB) for current pollen and mold levels across the country.
- HealthyChildren.org: Allergies and Asthma. Video clips about how to use inhalers and spacers and articles about asthma medications.
- KidsHealth Asthma Center. Click on Medications and Monitoring for articles for families in English and
Spanish about rescue and controller medications, peak flow meters, nebulizers,
inhalers, and compliance. Includes
an asthma action plan and an asthma diary.
- See the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP) report, Expert Panel Report 3: Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma (2007). Component 4 addresses the two general classes of medications for asthma (i.e., long-term control medication and quick-relief medication).
- See the MCH Library resource brief Medications.
- Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs knowledge path, family resource brief, school resource brief
- Community Services Locator: An Online Directory for Finding Community Services for Children and Families knowledge path
- Health Insurance and Access to Care for Children and Adolescents knowledge path, family resource brief
- Medications resource brief
Asthma in Children and Adolescents: Knowledge Path, 5th ed. (February 2011). (Updated: September 2011).
Author: Susan Brune Lorenzo, M.L.S., MCH Library.
Reviewers: Ellen Bowser, R.D., L.D., University of Florida Pediatric Pulmonary Center; Cindy Capen, M.S.N., University of Florida Pediatric Pulmonary Center; Susan Horky, L.C.S.W., University of Florida Pediatric Pulmonary Center; Elizabeth M. Klements, M.S., P.N.P.–B.C., A.E.–C., Children’s Hospital Boston; Angela Miney, Family Partner, University of Florida Pediatric Pulmonary Center; Olivia Pickett, M.A., M.L.S., MCH Library; Mary H. Wagner, M.D., University of Florida Pediatric Pulmonary Center; Elizabeth R. Woods, M.D., M.P.H, Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital Boston.
Editor: Ruth Barzel, M.A., MCH Library.
