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Childhood Asthma Surveillance by Community CoalitionsFight Asthma Milwaukee Allies (FAM Allies), Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Fight Asthma Milwaukee Allies (FAM Allies), Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services in Madison, Wisconsin
Allies Against Asthma National Advisory Committee, United States Public Health Service, Air Pollution and Respiratory Health Branch, National Center for Environmental Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia
National Capital Asthma Coalition (formerly the DC Asthma Coalition) in Washington, D.C.
Consortium for Infant and Child Health (CINCH), Center for Pediatric Research at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia
Alianza Contra el Asma Pediátrica en Puerto Rico (ALIANZA) and the UCLA/RAND Program Latino Children with Asthma, UCLA Department of Pediatrics and RAND Health in Santa Monica, California
Fight Asthma Milwaukee Allies (FAM Allies), Department of Pediatrics at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Allies Against Asthma, Center for Managing Chronic Disease, University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan Multiple benefits can accrue when community coalitions conduct asthma surveillance activities. Surveillance data are used to identify children with asthma, assess disease burden and needs in the community, understand the illness and risk factors, identify children with asthma who are undertreated, plan community interventions, evaluate the effect of interventions, and monitor trends. These data, which are used to inform coalition and program decisions and to evaluate asthma interventions, can also be used to strengthen state and national asthma surveillance efforts and to inform clinical practice and public health policies. Local coalition data collection represents a complementary approach to national asthma surveillance, allowing action at the local level and showing how local findings vary from national observations. The Allies Against Asthma coalitions developed several practical means to conduct childhood asthma surveillance that informed coalition efforts and facilitated innovative linkages among government officials, health care providers, community agencies, families, and academicians and/or researchers.
Key Words: health care coalitions • population surveillance • asthma • child • coalition
Health Promotion Practice, Vol. 7, No. 2 suppl,
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