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- Asthma Education Resources for American Indian Communities
- Asthma Education Resources for Spanish-Speaking Communities
- Asthma Home-Based Services
- Asthma Home-Based Services Toolkit, Manual and Client Curriculum
- Outdoor Air Quality Guidance for Schools and Childcare
- Strategic Framework
Related Sites
Patient-Centered Asthma Care
Providing guideline-driven, top-notch asthma care and improving the quality of life for every person who lives with asthma should be the goal of health care professionals treating asthma patients. Clinical guidelines give health care providers the tools and information they need to diagnose, treat, and teach effective self-management skills to their patients and their families.
Asthma care is a partnership and a shared responsibility between the patient, the health care provider, and the systems supporting them. Asthma can be controlled through effective asthma management using the guiding principles of the Guidelines Implementation Panel Report for: Expert Panel Report 3 - Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma - Partners Putting Guidelines Into Action.
Provide Written Asthma Action Plans to Your Patients
Asthma action plans (AAPs) are written, individualized self-management and educational tools that provide daily and emergency guidance to asthma patients, parents, and caregivers at home, school, and the workplace and community settings.
Sample Asthma Action Plans
- Child - English (PDF)
- Child-Spanish/Niño español (PDF)
- Adult - English (PDF)
- Adult Spanish/Adulto español (PDF)
Multiple Language Asthma Action Plans
University of Michigan offers a library of Asthma Action Plans in the following languages: English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Spanish.
SMART Therapy Asthma Action Plan
SMART therapy stands for Single Maintenance and Reliever Therapy. The SMART Therapy Action Plan is for those who use a single inhaler containing the combination albuterol for quick-relief of asthma symptoms and an inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) and long-acting bronchodilator (LABA) for daily maintenance of symptoms.
Sample Consent to Share forms
Asthma Trigger Sheets
This information sheet identifies asthma triggers and what a person with asthma can do to reduce those triggers.
Make a Referral to a Minnesota Local Public Health Agency for Asthma Home-Based Services
Health care systems, clinics, and providers struggle with sufficient time to provide asthma education in the clinic setting and they don’t have the opportunity to see what triggers may be affecting their patient’s asthma in the patient's home. Asthma Home-Based Services afford more time with the individual and give the health care professional an opportunity to assess the home for potential asthma triggers.
Get started
A referral, coming from the individual's prescribing health care provider, school nurse, public health nurse or community health worker is the first step in getting an asthma home visit scheduled for a individual with uncontrolled asthma. Home visits can provide asthma care that meets the medical and educational needs of the individual patient and can reduce the number and severity of an individual’s asthma episodes. Contact information and a brief overview of current programs that offer asthma home-based services.
The following Minnesota programs currently offer in-home services for asthma. Please see contact information to inquire about services provided and current eligibility.
Promote becoming a Certified Asthma Educator (AE-C)
The American Lung Association offers training courses for health professionals who want to work towards becoming a Certified Asthma Educator (AE-C). The Asthma Educator Institute (AEI) is a preparatory course for those qualified to take the National Board for Respiratory Care (NBRC) certified asthma educator (AE-C) examination and also for individuals who want to implement asthma guidelines-based care.
The Association of Asthma Educators (AAE) offers courses designed in accordance with the NHLBI/NAEPP EPR-3 Asthma Guidelines. Continuing education credits are offered for live and online courses for a variety of professional disciplines. This membership-driven, national organization also offers in-person onsite training workshops appropriate for health care organizations/systems utilizing an evidence-based curriculum. They also offer a NAECB prep and recertification review course for those interested in sitting for their AE-C. Contact the AAE at courses@asthmaeducators.org
Global and National Guidelines
Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA)
- 2026 GINA Strategy Report
The 2026 update of the Global Strategy for Asthma Management and Prevention incorporates new scientific information about asthma based on a review of recent scientific literature by an international panel of experts on the GINA Science Committee.
National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF)
- Environmental Management of Pediatric Asthma
These guidelines for health care providers focus on integrating environmental management of asthma into pediatric health care. The guidelines outline competencies in environmental health relevant to pediatric asthma that should be integrated into routine asthma care by health care providers. The guidelines also provide details about environmental intervention recommendations that should be shared with patients as part of a clinical asthma visit.
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
- 2020 Focused Updates to the Asthma Management Guidelines (PDF)
This 2020 report from the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program Coordinating Committee Expert Panel Working Group presents focused updates to the previous 2007 asthma management guidelines on six priority topics. *Note: The ages 0-4 stepwise approach table was updated in February 2021, and the reprints of the 2020 Focused Updates to the Asthma Management Guidelines from the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology do not reflect the updated table.
- Expert Panel Report (EPR-3) Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma
The NAEPP Guidelines are the nation’s gold standard for asthma care and management. These guidelines offer evidence and expert opinion-based recommendations defining how to manage asthma through comprehensive assessment, diagnosis, treatment and monitoring individual patient’s asthma.