- 4.1: Resources for Health Plans, Purchasers, and Policy Specialists
- 4.2: Resources for Providers
- 4.3: Resources for Patients and Families
Our mission:
To reduce the impact of asthma across New England, through collaborations of health, housing, education, and environmental organizations with 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.
Resources for Patients and Families
ARC is a governmental policy organization.
If you or a family member want to know more about asthma, please visit one of the sites below:
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Patient resources from The American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology
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Patient resources from The National Heart Lung and Blood Institute
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Managing Indoor Environmental Asthma Triggers from the US EPA
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Basic information about asthma from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Asthma Action Plans (available in 8 languages)
- Asthma in Children and Adolescents from the Georgetown University Maternal and Child Health Library
On October 12, 2011 ARC and close to 50 co-signers submitted testimony requesting that the Institute of Medicine examine and address the non-clinical best practice components of comprehensive asthma management as part of Community Based
Non-Clinical Prevention Policies and Wellness Strategies.
Over 50 organizations and individuals joined ARC and Health Resources in Action in expressing to New England U.S. Senator4s our extreme concern about the proposed complete elimination of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Healthy Homes and Lead Poisoning Prevention Program by the Senate Appropriations Committee in the proposed FY12 spending bill for Labor, Health and Human Services and Education.