Home Visits for Trigger Reduction and Asthma Self-Management Education
Information For Public Health Professionals
This strategy is represented by the “H” in EXHALE. The six strategies in EXHALE can have the greatest impact when used together in every community.
Education
on asthma self-management
X-tinguishing
smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke
HOME
visits for trigger reduction and asthma self-management education
Achievement
of guidelines-based medical management
Linkages
and coordination of care across settings
Environmental
policies or best practices to reduce asthma triggers from indoor, outdoor, or occupational sources
Home visits for trigger reduction and asthma self-management education are part of EXHALE, a set of six strategies used by CDC’s National Asthma Control Program and its partners to help Americans with asthma.
Home visits for trigger reduction and asthma self-management education can:
- Improve medication adherence among people with asthma;
- Reduce asthma-related emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalizations;
- Decrease missed school or work days because of asthma; and
- Reduce healthcare costs.
Home visit services include:
- Home environmental assessments for common triggers of asthma attacks (for example, people with prior hospitalizations or ED visits for asthma).
- Asthma self-management education, which included education on how to use asthma medication correctly and what to do if asthma symptoms worsen.
Public health partners including nurses, certified asthma educators, community health workers, and others can deliver home visits to people with asthma.
Home visits for trigger reduction and asthma self-management education are part of EXHALE, a set of six strategies used by CDC’s National Asthma Control Program and its partners to help Americans with asthma.
Home visits for trigger reduction and asthma self-management education can:
- Improve medication adherence among people with asthma;
- Reduce asthma-related emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalizations;
- Decrease missed school or work days because of asthma; and
- Reduce healthcare costs.
Home visit services include:
- Home environmental assessments for common triggers of asthma attacks (for example, people with prior hospitalizations or ED visits for asthma).
- Asthma self-management education, which included education on how to use asthma medication correctly and what to do if asthma symptoms worsen.
Public health partners including nurses, certified asthma educators, community health workers, and others can deliver home visits to people with asthma.
This strategy is represented by the “H” in EXHALE. The six strategies in EXHALE can have the greatest impact when used together in every community.
Education
on asthma self-management
X-tinguishing
smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke
HOME
visits for trigger reduction and asthma self-management education
Achievement
of guidelines-based medical management
Linkages
and coordination of care across settings
Environmental
policies or best practices to reduce asthma triggers from indoor, outdoor, or occupational sources
Learn more about how home visits can help children and adults with asthma: https://www.cdc.gov/asthma/exhale/
