Implementation of evidence-based asthma interventions in post-Katrina New Orleans: The head-off environmental asthma in Louisiana (HEAL) Study

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 120, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1607-1612

  Mitchell, Herman ^a   Cohn, Richard D ^b   Wildfire, Jeremy ^a   Thornton, Eleanor ^c   Kennedy, Suzanne ^a   El Dahr, Jane M ^d   Chulada, Patricia C ^e   Mvula, Mosanda M ^f   Faye Grimsley, L ^g   Lichtveld, Maureen Y ^g   White, LuAnn E ^g   Sterling, Yvonne M ^h   Stephens, Kevin U ^f   Martin III, William J ⁱ  

^a Rho Federal Systems Division Inc   (United States)

^b SRA International Inc ^*  (United States)

^c Dewberry nnd Davis LLC   (United States)

^d TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^f New Orleans Health Department   (United States)

^g TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Asthma case management; Asthma counselor; Asthma morbidity; Environmental intervention; Hurricane Katrina; Indoor allergens; Mold

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; CORTICOSTEROID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E;

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHILD; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUNSELING; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL CHILD;

EID: 84868549993     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1104242     Document Type: Article

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