Asthma
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- Asthma Prevention & Management in Different Populations
- Asthma Prevention & Management in Different Settings
- Intervention Strategies
Several resources are available to help you think about how to prevent or decrease asthma in your community. For background on preventing or reducing asthma, reducing outdoor air pollution, improving indoor air quality, increasing access to health care (e.g., screening, disease management) and eliminating disparities in asthma among various community, please visit the following websites:
- Department of Health and Senior Services
http://www.dhss.mo.gov/asthma/ - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/asthma/default.htm - Related Links
Asthma is also related to other risk factors that can be prevented. Several of these risk factors are described along with specific intervention strategies in the Intervention MICA system, including:
- Tobacco
- Obesity
- Environmental Pollutants
Intervention MICA provides information, tools and resources to help you figure out how to prevent or decrease the number of people in your community who get asthma.