Links to Other Asthma Sites

• Resource: ARB releases report on indoor air quality (A department of the California Environmental Protection Agency)
  Article on the Report (The Sacramento Bee - free registration required)
• Study: Children on school buses subjected to high levels of pollution (ACS Publications)
  Press release (UC Berkeley News)
• Event: Camp Breathe Easy open for kids with asthma (American Lung Association)
• Find out the risk from diesel in your community by viewing the Diesel Soot Health Impacts site (Clean Air Task Force)
• Public Health & Education: Cigarette Smoking, Exposure to Secondhand Smoke Increases Risk of Cervical Cancer, Study Says (Kaiser Family Foundation)
• Find out about Spare the Air and how to get advance notice of "bad air" days.
• Find out if you or your child has asthma by taking this asthma Life Quality (LQ) test www.allergy.mcg.edu/
• For a list of asthma triggers (PDF 2pp.)
• California Asthma Resource List (CARL) is a list of asthma-related organizations and programs serving different counties in the state
• The Environmental Protection Agency's comprehensive asthma website
• The American Lung Association of California asthma site
• Find out the link between air pollution and asthma by reading Air Pollution Causes Asthma: A Review of Recent Studies in the most recent Health & Clean Air newsletter
• Find specific information about air quality in your community, including locations of air monitors and polluting facilities in your area, from the California Air Resources Board
• For localized environmental information on communities http://www.scorecard.org
• Families interested in keeping their homes free of asthma triggers can look at an interactive, virtual healthy house from the Children's Health Environmental Coalition
• Exposure to tobacco smoke and the use of tobacco products (smoking cigarettes and cigars) can trigger asthma attacks.
• What You Can Do About Secondhand Smoke
• Call 1-800 NO Butts for help in quitting smoking or visit www.californiasmokershelpline.org
• Visit www.whatsasthma.org for an explanation in English & Spanish of asthma medications
• Regional Asthma Management & Prevention (RAMP)
• Community Action to Fight Asthma
• Allergy and Asthma Network Mothers of Asthmatics
• California Department of Health Services - Asthma

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