CDC - Asthma

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CDC - Asthma

More than 10 million children have been diagnosed with asthma at some point in their lives, and poor and minority children suffer the most. 

Secretary Kathleen Sebelius of the Department of Health and Human Services joined U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson and Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan to release The Coordinated Federal Action Plan to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Asthma Disparities (http://www.epa.gov/childrenstaskforce). This action plan presents a framework to maximize the use of existing federal resources for addressing this major public health challenge during the next three to five years. 

CDC’s National Asthma Control Program (http://www.cdc.gov/asthma) played a major role in drafting this plan, and will lead many of the key activities outlined. For example, because of CDC’s experience in program evaluation and working with state programs, we will lead development of standardized measures for implementation research and program evaluation across the federal government. 

Consistency in how federal programs define terms and collect and measure data will help us draw conclusions about the most effective interventions to protect our children from asthma. 

To learn more about the CDC's Asthma Control Program, please visit http://www.cdc.gov/asthma