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Studies have shown that the asthma burden falls disproportionately on people in a poor socio-economic status. Asthma rates are rapidly increasing for children in this group.
Be sure your clients are receiving proper medial care. Clients identified with asthma should have a minimum of two physician visits per year to control asthma.
Provide asthma information when administering vaccines and immunizations. Provide the general public information about environmental asthma triggers along with information on how to reduce environmental asthma triggers . IDEM has created an evidence-based list of Environmental Asthma Triggers and fact sheets for each of them. For a quick-reference, provide IDEM’s Top 10 Ways to Reduce Asthma Triggers at Home. IDEM has also created Computer and Additional Web Resources
that can be printed and handed out to interested parties.
Provide smoking cessation education for patients when necessary. Active/passive smoking is the most important irritant asthma trigger. Encourage patients not to smoke. Visit the Indiana Tobacco Prevention and Cessation for information.