Getting SMART About Asthma Education
July 19, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
A program in Chicago is empowering students to learn about their asthma and challenging them to create change in their own communities.
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July 19, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
A program in Chicago is empowering students to learn about their asthma and challenging them to create change in their own communities.
June 10, 2013 | Story
New study by RWJF Health & Society Scholars examines how pediatricians assess asthma symptoms.
April 24, 2013 | Journal Article
Practicing pediatricians use various terms to describe standardized symptoms of asthma.
December 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Changes in office-based treatment of asthma coincide with reduced asthma morbidity and mortality over the same period.
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.
June 1, 2009 | Program Results Report
Allies Against Asthma supported the efforts of seven community-based coalitions to improve the management of pediatric asthma in their areas.
October 1, 2008 | Story
Long BeachMoms Advocate for Clean Air"I don't understand much about politics-believe me, not a whole lot," Evangelina Ramirez, speaking in her native Spanish, tells a Long Beach forum on local air pollution in early 2005.
October 6, 2008 | Story
Physician Training Highlights Needs of Children With AsthmaThe typical 15-minute appointment does not give physicians much time to learn about the challenges facing pediatric asthma patients and their parents in their everyday lives.
October 1, 2008 | Story
The breadth and diversity of the local Allies Against Asthma coalitions enabled them to mount a broad-based attack on childhood asthma."They didn't just focus on physicians or families or policy change.
October 1, 2008 | Story
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation national program Allies Against Asthma (Allies) uses a community coalition approach for controlling asthma in children living in low-income, minority neighborhoods.