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December 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This article compares asthma management approaches by physicians, community organizations and charitable organizations. Community organizations are more likely to focus on environmental and community-based factors that contribute to asthma, while clinical groups are more likely to focus on individual disease management factors.
December 1, 2009 | Journal Article
A parent mentoring program which matches parents of minority, asthmatic children with trained parent mentors similar to themselves seems to be an inexpensive and effective way to help families manage their kids' asthma. There can actually be a net savings associated with families that extensively participate in such a program.
June 14, 2010 | Story
In the 1980s, public health officials in Barcelona, Spain, began to notice a series of asthma outbreaks that resulted in unusually high numbers of emergency room visits.
November 18, 2009 | Program Result
Caleb Mahan was 6 years old when he had his first asthma attack. It came without warning and was severe.
November 18, 2009 | Program Result
Fransheska and younger sister, Yolamar, members of an immigrant Puerto Rican family living in Rochester, N.Y., have had asthma since early childhood.
October 1, 2005 | Journal Article
Parents' and Physicians' Perspectives on How Pediatric Asthma Hospitalizations Can Be Prevented
April 1, 2004 | Journal Article
Parents of children with asthma need to learn a great deal about the disorder in order to manage it successfully. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute has recommended that all members of a pediatric health care team become involved in the e ...
October 6, 2009 | Program Result
A research team from the University of Michigan School of Public Health expanded the Physician Asthma Care Education (PACE) project, which it had developed in the 1990s.
March 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This article examines the relationship between asthma onset in children and maternal intimate partner violence. Stress and early life adversity are thought to influence children's susceptibility to asthma and other immune diseases.
February 21, 2010 | Story
Glenn Flores discovers that parent mentors help reduce wheezing, asthma complications and emergency department visits in African-American and Latino children.