Allies Against Asthma: A Program to Combine Clinical and Public Health Approaches to Chronic Illness
National Program
To support community-based coalitions aimed at improving efforts to control pediatric asthma.
Acute Care
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A Randomized Controlled Trial of Asthma Self-Management Support Comparing Clinic-Based Nurses and In-Home Community Health Workers
February 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Adding home health visits by community health workers for families already receiving in-clinic support from asthma nurses, gives their asthmatic children 24 more symptom-free days per year on average and also modestly improves quality of life for caregivers.
Mortality Among Very Low-Birthweight Infants in Hospitals Serving Minority Populations
November 30, 2005 | Journal Article
Minority-serving hospitals may provide lower quality of care to VLBW infants compared with other hospitals. Because VLBW black infants are disproportionately treated by minority-serving hospitals.
Simplifying Interpreter Access Through the SPEAK Line
August 11, 2009 | Story
Seattle Children's Hospital created quick, hassle-free way for patients, their families and health care providers to access interpreters.
Allies Against Asthma: A Program to Combine Clinical and Public Health Approaches to Chronic Illness
June 1, 2009 | Program Result
Allies Against Asthma supported the efforts of seven community-based coalitions to improve the management of pediatric asthma in their areas.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Efforts to Address Pediatric Asthma
January 1, 2009 | Book
In this chapter of the Anthology, Alexis Levy, a communications associate at the Foundation, reports on the development and execution of the Foundation's efforts to reduce childhood asthma.