Alleviate Asthma! A Tool Kit for Health Care Organizations

The Alliance of Community Health Plans Foundation recently completed work on a major multi-year Centers for Disease Control & Prevention project that coordinated clinical intervention sites to help alleviate asthma among children in America's inner-cities.  The tool kit that appears below contains useful lessons from the project and is a must-read for health care organizations that are considering establishing their own interventions to help Inner-city children and families control childhood asthma.

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Acknowledgements

Foreword

Section I: Tool Kit Origins, Audience Content, and Uses

• What is the Inner-city Asthma Intervention?
• For Whom is the Tool Kit Intended?
• What Does the Tool Kit Contain?
• How to Use the Took Kit

Section II: Consideration of Asthma Programming

• Why Consider an Asthma Intervention: The Costs and Benefits of Intervention Programming

Section III: Intervention Background and Implementation

• About the National Cooperative Inner-city Asthma Study
• About the Inner-city Asthma Intervention

Section IV: Administering an Asthma Intervention: Consider Organizational Needs

Section V: ICAI Lessons Learned: Organizational and Administrative Components

• Physician, Organizational and Community Buy-in
• Staffing and Space
• Equipment, Supplies, Incentives
• Recruitment
• Risk Assessment
• Skin Testing
• Core Activities (group and individual sessions)
• Follow-up

Section VI: Lessons Learned: Implementation Components

Section VII: Organizational Readiness Questionnaire

Section VIII: Sample Documents and Materials

Appendices

• About Asthma
• References & Links
• Glossary
• Inner-city Asthma Intervention Site List