Inner-City Asthma Intervention

A Good Idea

Description

The University of Texas Health Science Center-San Antonio and CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Children's Hospital are implementing CDC's inner-city asthma intervention. The intervention targets high-risk, urban families who often require intensive interventions to improve asthma outcomes and is designed to enhance medical care provided by primary care physicians and specialists. Through group and tailored individual sessions, an asthma counselor (a master's-level social worker) helps families learn to effectively manage their children's asthma.

Goal / Mission

Effective asthma control can improve quality of life, reduce medical costs, and reduce the number of asthma-related emergency department visits, hospitalizations, school and work days missed, days of restricted activity, and deaths each year.

Results / Accomplishments

The program puts into practice the findings of the National Institutes of Health's National Cooperative Inner-City Asthma Study, which has been shown to decrease the number of days children suffer from asthma symptoms. By learning to control asthma in individual patients, families will be better able to prevent visits to the emergency department, hospitalizations, and deaths due to asthma.

About this Promising Practice

Organization(s)
The University of Texas Health Science Center-San Antonio and CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Children's Hospital
Primary Contact
University of Texas
Health Science Center at San Antonio
Department of Pediatrics
Mail Code 7808
7703 Floyd Curl Drive
San Antonio, Texas 78229-3900
(210) 562-5344
http://www.uthscsa.edu
Topics
Health / Children's Health
Health / Respiratory Diseases
Environmental Health / Toxins & Contaminants
Organization(s)
The University of Texas Health Science Center-San Antonio and CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Children's Hospital
Source
The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Date of publication
2003
Location
San Antonio, TX
For more details
http://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749%2804%...
Target Audience
Children, Families

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  1. The program description includes: the sponsoring organization, program goals, program funding source, program implementation steps and outcomes.
  2. The program evaluation is limited to descriptive measure(s) of success/accomplishment (i.e., program participation rates, number of services/education sessions/radio messages provided). Note: oftentimes, the program has been newly implemented and a program evaluation has not yet been conducted. Programs that have not yet been evaluated, but which show promise in improving health or quality of life, are classified as Good Ideas until an evaluation is conducted.