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St. Louis Public Radio |
Missouri to start offering asthma home assessments to children on Medicaid
St. Louis Public Radio It takes John Kraemer about two hours to finish an asthma home assessment. He interviews the family, checks each room for allergens and records air quality data with a particulate counter. By identifying potential triggers for a patient's asthma in … |
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fox4kc.com |
Missouri to fund some home assessments for kids with asthma
fox4kc.com KANSAS CITY, Mo — Sometimes, the biggest dangers to your child are right in the home. The state of Missouri will soon provide funds to see that dangers for some kids with asthma are found there so they can be eliminated. “How long ago was the last … |
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KBIA |
Missouri Medicaid to Support Asthma Care at Home
KBIA Webb, an Environmental Health Coordinator at Children's Mercy Hospital, is visiting the home of a child with asthma to help identify environmental factors that could be triggering the child's condition, like the mold she just found growing on the … |
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Police Log: Someone spraying stuff into caller's home to give her asthma attack
NRToday.com 3:03 a.m. — Caller reports suspicious person peeking in his or her windows, walking around the house and spraying stuff to give caller asthma attacks in the 300 block of Surprise Avenue, Canyonville. 3:13 a.m. — Intoxicated man reportedly crawled … |
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cleveland.com |
Home visits clean up triggers for kids with chronic asthma
cleveland.com Akbar Tyler of Environmental Health Watch inspects homes in Cleveland to check for mold, lead paint, standing water, roaches, and animal droppings–anything that would be an asthma trigger or health hazard. In this Brooklyn Centre basement, he found … |
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whotv.com |
Local Group Targets Childhood Asthma with Home Improvement Program
whotv.com DES MOINES, Iowa – A collaborative effort to eliminate childhood asthma and improve deteriorating housing in three neighborhoods east of downtown launches this week, and it's got half-a-million dollars in its pocket. Healthy Homes East Bank, the … Program targets air quality in older DM homes |
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San Bernardino County is offering home asthma support
Redlands Daily Facts The county Department of Public Health offers a home visitation program that gives families tools to make children's asthma attacks less frequent and less scary. CARE—Coordinated Asthma Referral and Education—is funded by a grant from the South Coast … |
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EmpowHer |
Trouble at Home: Childhood Trauma Linked to Increased Asthma Risk
EmpowHer “The biological risk factors for asthma onset and severity, such as genetics, allergens, tobacco smoke, air pollution and respiratory infections, have been well established by previous studies. But psychosocial factors, such as stress, which we know … |
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NDTV |
World Asthma Day 2015: Causes, Symptoms, Treatment & Home Remedies
NDTV World Asthma Day 2015: Causes, Symptoms, Treatment & Home Remedies According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) there are close to 300 million people suffering from asthma across the globe. It is also one of the most common non-communicable … |
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Obama: Malia's asthma brings home climate change debate
Cortez Journal He is arguing that preventing climate change could improve public health by reducing illnesses such as asthma. Obama tells ABC he felt "terrible" fright when a young Malia told him she couldn't breathe and had to be rushed to the emergency room. He … |
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