An evaluation of the asthma intervention of the New York State Healthy Neighborhoods Program

The Journal of Asthma : Official Journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma
Shao LinJoan K Bobier

Abstract

The Healthy Neighborhoods Programs (HNP) are funded by the Federal Preventive Health and Health Services block grants and administered by the New State Department of Health (NYSDOH). Eight county and local health departments are funded for 3 years for a total of $1.25 million per year to target households at risk for environmental health and safety hazards. The HNP asthma intervention uses home visits to identify asthmatics, assess asthma morbidity and management, and identify environmental asthma triggers. Outreach workers provide education about asthma, referrals, and controls for asthma triggers. The purpose of this evaluation was to assess the impact of the HNP asthma intervention for the 1997-1999 funding cycle and for the first year of the 2000-2002 funding cycle. Because of changes in reporting requirements across the funding cycles, the findings for 1997-1999 and 2000 were analyzed separately. We analyzed one final outcome measure, the rate of self-reported hospitalizations (admissions and emergency room visits), and three intermediate outcome measures (the percent of homes with cockroaches, the percent of asthmatics with a written management plan, and the percent of asthmatics using a peak flow meter). We also estimate...Continue Reading

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