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City Health Dashboard Provides Health and Related Data for Large US Cities
The Department of Population Health at NYU Langone Health has updated its City Health Dashboard. The Dashboard is a free online data resource featuring over 35 measures of health and the drivers of health for the largest 500 US cities. The measures available can help advocates and agencies across the country with issues such as lead…
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EPA Releases Online Course, “Wildfire Smoke and Your Patients’ Health” with Continuing Education Credits
The US Environmental Protection Agency has partnered with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in developing a new online course, “Wildfire Smoke and Your Patients’ Health.” The course is free and available online, and includes information on wildfire smoke including health effects, air quality, actions to take before and during a wildfire, and more.…
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EPA Releases “Supporting Healthy Houses of Worship: Effective, Affordable Measures to Protect the Health of Congregations and Staff”
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released a new booklet, “Supporting Healthy Houses of Worship: Effective, Affordable Measures to Protect the Health of Congregations and Staff.” The booklet has a special focus on children’s health and is designed to help places of worship be able to take action to reduce environmental health risks. The…
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CITRIS Policy Lab Publishes Health, Wildfires & Climate Change in California White Paper
The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and the Banatao Institute collaborated with the California Institute for Energy and Environment in the Spring of 2019 to host a large workshop on the health impacts of wildfires. This workshop pulled together UC Berkeley faculty and students with practitioners from local governments,…
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Greenlining Institute and California’s Energy Efficiency for All Release “Equitable Building Electrification: A Framework for Powering Resilient Communities”
The Greenlining Institute and California’s Energy Efficiency for All have partnered together to produce a new report, “Equitable Building Electrification: A Framework for Powering Resilient Communities.” The report examines and highlights the benefits for low-income residents of moving away from gas in buildings. The report looks closely at electrification, which can result in cleaner air,…
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Study Examines Public School Teacher Asthma Education
A 2019 study in Pediatric Allergy, Immunology, and Pulmonology examines the knowledge of public-school teachers as it relates to “asthma self-carry and self-administration laws and policies and trainings received related to general chronic health conditions including asthma.” Researchers collected data from 593 teachers. Teachers reported “little training received at either undergraduate or graduate levels.” Some…
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Researchers Study Connections Between Depression, Anxiety, and Asthma-Related Emergency Department Visits
In the October 2019 edition of Pediatrics, researchers examine the relation between anxiety and depression and asthma-related emergency department use. The study utilized the information of 65,342 “patients aged 6 to 21 years with asthma.” They found that 24.7% of the patients also “had a diagnosis of anxiety, depression, or both.” After controlling for age,…
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National Center for Healthy Housing Releases “Why Partner with Energy Stakeholders and Programs?
In late 2019 the National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH) released a new resource to help asthma programs partner with energy stakeholders, Why Partner with Energy Stakeholders and Programs? This resource includes a video presentation, slides and key readings to highlight why energy programs can be of value to those working to advance and sustain in-home asthma…
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The Impacts of Interactions of Neighborhood Social Conditions and Family Relationships on Childhood Asthma
The August 2019 edition of Pediatrics contains an article examining how neighborhood social conditions and family relationships can affect childhood asthma. Youth diagnosed with asthma had the neighborhood conditions around their homes coded to see if they were dangerous and/or disorderly. They also interviewed the children to assess family relationship quality. Researchers found “significant interactions”…
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Feasibility of Incentives to Increase Adherence in High-Risk Children with Asthma
In the August 2019 edition of The Journal of Asthma, researchers sought to find if adherence incentives could be used for high-risk children to increase adherence to medication use. In a two-month study, researchers provided reminders, feedback, and cash incentives to the family and children to help with daily adherence in the first month. In…
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American Lung Association Releases Asthma Trends Brief
The American Lung Association has released its 2019 brief examining asthma morbidity and mortality trends. The report includes descriptions, figures, and tables detailing current patterns of the burden of asthma on both children and adults. The report also includes current demographics of asthma, including information on sex, age, race/ethnicity, family income, and more. To view…
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E4TheFuture Releases Energy-Plus-Health Playbook
In late 2019, E4TheFuture released the Energy-Plus-Health Playbook. Created primarily to support program administrators designing or developing energy efficiency programs, the 84-page Playbook outlines three program tiers with increasing levels of health and energy integration. Written and developed by VEIC, with input from energy and health experts, funding for the Playbook was provided by E4TheFuture. For…