| Title of Publication |
Description of Publication |
Order Number |
| Asthma and Your Child |
Helping your Child Stay Healthy & Active. This booklet will assist parents and children diagnosed with asthma to understand this chronic disease and manage it. It includes a section for parents that explains asthma and asthma management. The section for children (elementary ages) includes age appropriate asthma education and fun exercises aimed at understanding asthma and how to control it. |
291624 |
| El Asma y Su Nino |
Spanish version: Asthma and Your Child: Helping your Child Stay Healthy & Active. This booklet will assist parents and children diagnosed with asthma to understand this chronic disease and manage it. It includes a section for parents that explains asthma and asthma management. The section for children (elementary ages) includes age appropriate asthma education and fun exercises aimed at understanding asthma and how to control it. |
301545 |
| Asthma At My Age |
This booklet provides information on asthma for older persons. It contains information on asthma symptoms, causes, treatment and management and special considerations on asthma as it affects older people. |
301546 |
| Facts About Asthma For Teens |
This booklet provides information on asthma for teenagers. It provides information on controlling asthma, medications, treatment, asthma and physical activity, and asthma triggers |
301547 |
| Facts About Asthma |
Helps individuals identify asthma symptoms and triggers; what to do in case of a severe attack; explains asthma medications and the role of the relationship between the individual with asthma and the physician. |
311984 |
| Facts About How to Keep Your Lungs Healthy |
An introduction to the respiratory system and a primer on lung disease: How the lungs work, warning signs of lung disease, common lung hazards, how to protect lungs and prevent lung disease. |
311989 |
| Facts About Exercise and Lunch Health |
Designed to help people with lung disease, including asthma, safely enjoy the benefits of exercise: Developing a personal fitness plan, tips for lung disease patients, asthma and exercise, air pollution and exercise, consultation with health care providers. |
311988 |
| Treating Asthma at School |
For parents of children with asthma; describes what school personnel, especially teachers and school nurses, should know about child's condition; describes support services. |
311987 |
| Facts About Cockroaches and Asthma |
Low-literacy asthma prevention brochure that focuses on cockroaches, a potent asthma trigger: Why cockroaches can endanger lung health; step by step process to get rid of roaches; effective use of pesticides and traps. |
311986 |
| Facts About Home Control of Allergies and Asthma |
Helps individuals avoid asthma and allergy triggers in the home; identifies common triggers and where triggers are commonly found indoors; describes how to control the home environment as part of an overall care regimen. |
311985 |
| What You Can Do About Air Pollution |
This brochure describes what individuals can do protect the environment and prevent air pollution at home, on the road and in the community: How air pollution affects health, health tips for high-pollution days, steps to cut down on air pollution. |
311983 |
| Facts About Protection Yourself from Ozone Smog |
Answers basic questions about ozone smog with easy-to-read text and visual aids: Ozone smog, how it makes people sick, who is at risk, how to get daily information on ozone levels, explains Air Quality Index (AQI) and ozone level color codes, what to do on high ozone days, how to keep ozone levels down. |
311982 |
| Facts About Air Pollution in Your Home |
Basic education on indoor quality; describes the most common indoor air pollutants, their sources and associated health risks and proposes strategies for controlling pollutants and using air cleaning devices. |
311981 |
| Facts About Outdoor Air Pollution and Your Health |
Explains how outdoor air pollution is a serious problem and offers helpful information on the most detrimental pollutants. It explains long-term effects on public health, pollution's link with asthma and other lung diseases and how to protect against outdoor air pollution. |
311980 |
| Facts About Peak Flow Meters |
This booklet provides helpful information on the use of Peak Flow Meters in managing asthma. Many people who have asthma benefit from the use of a Peak Flow Meter. Peak Flow Meters measure the ability to push air out of the lungs. The use of a Peak Flow Meter is often prescribed as part of a management program for people diagnosed with asthma. |
301548 |
| Pennsylvania Asthma Action Plan 2006 |
The Pennsylvania Asthma Action Plan 2006 is a comprehensive state plan to reduce the burden of asthma in Pennsylvania developed by a consortium of over 20 asthma stakeholders from Pennsylvania . The Plan lays out recommendations for action that can be used by local, regional and statewide programs and institutions in a coordinated effort to implement asthma interventions on local, regional and statewide basis. |
302380 |
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| 2006 Pennsylvania Asthma Burden Report |
The Pennsylvania Asthma Burden Report 2006 contains data on the burden of asthma in the Commonwealth. This report illustrates the health burden, economic costs and prevalence of asthma in Pennsylvania . Data on child and adult asthma prevalence, hospitalization and death related to asthma can be found in the Report. Information in the Report will be of use in the planning, implementation and evaluation of interventions to improve the control and management of asthma and reduce hospitalizations and deaths associated with this chronic disease in Pennsylvania . |
302381 |
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