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4131.0: Tuesday, November 9, 2004: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM | |||
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| HUD’s Healthy Homes Initiative provides grant funds for the identification and control of high priority, residential health hazards in high risk, low income housing. A common focus among grantees has been the evaluation of home-based interventions as part of the strategy for children’s asthma management. The represented projects targeted families living in a variety of housing, including both public, multifamily housing and privately owned, detached single family homes. Most interventions focused on the reduction of environmental allergen levels and included mold and moisture control, integrated pest management, specialized cleaning, and the use of mattress and pillow covers. All projects included an initial home assessment and education of caregivers regarding environmental controls in asthma management. Project designs also included the longitudinal assessment of asthma frequency and severity among participating children, with intervention effectiveness determined by the degree of post-intervention reduction in asthma morbidity. Most grantees also measured allergen concentrations (e.g., dust mite, cockroach, mold) in longitudinally collected house dust samples as another indicator of intervention effectiveness. The results of these and other ongoing studies will be used by HUD to develop science-based guidelines on effective housing interventions to be used as part of a holistic strategy to manage asthma in children. | |||
| Learning Objectives: 1) At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to identify three pathways through which housing conditions affect exposure to common asthma triggers in the home environment. 2) At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to identify three housing interventions that were successful in reducing allergen levels in house dust samples. 3) At the conclusion of this session, participants will understand how to assess longitudinal changes in children’s asthma morbidity and in asthma triggers. | |||
| Susan Lyon Stone, MS Joy E. Carlson, MPH Robeena M. Aziz John Balbus, MD | |||
| Peter J. Ashley | |||
Evaluating the Efficacy of Environmental Interventions for Alleviating Asthma Symptoms and Quality of Life Among Children in Urban Public Housing ![[ Recorded presentation ]](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif){kind=small} Jane E. Clougherty, MSc, Steve Melly, MA, H. Patricia Hynes, MA, MS, Brent Coull, PhD, Laura Kubzansky, PhD, John Spengler, ScD, Jonathan Levy, ScD | |||
| Impact of Integrated Pest Management on Chilren with Asthma Megan Sandel, MD, MPH, Anne Batcheller, RN, BSN | |||
| Mold and Moisture Home Interventions to reduce the Morbidity of Asthma in Children: Cuyahoga County Experience Terry Allan, RS, MPH, Dorr G. Dearborn, PhD, MD, Carolyn Kercsmar, MD, Mark Schluchter, PhD, Lester Kirchner, PhD, John Sobolewski, RS | |||
| Housing and Asthma: Interventions and Strategies from Seattle James Krieger, MD, MPH, Tim Takaro, MD,, MPH | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | Environment | ||
| Endorsed by: | Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Maternal and Child Health; Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Public Health Nursing | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | ||