Linkages and Coordination of Care Across Settings Among People with Asthma
Information For Public Health Professionals
This strategy is represented by the “L” in EXHALE. The six strategies in EXHALE can have the greatest impact when used together in every community.
Education
on asthma self-management
X-tinguishing
smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke
Home
visits for trigger reduction and asthma self-management education
Achievement
of guidelines-based medical management
LINKAGES
and coordination of care across settings
Environmental
policies or best practices to reduce asthma triggers from indoor, outdoor, or occupational sources
Linkages and coordination of care across settings among people with asthma is part of EXHALE, a set of six strategies used by CDC’s National Asthma Control Program and its partners to help Americans with asthma.
Linkages and coordination of care across settings can:
- Improve medication adherence among people with asthma;
- Reduce asthma-related emergency department visits and hospitalizations;
- Decrease missed school days because of asthma; and
- Reduce healthcare costs.
Coordinated care includes linking people to needed healthcare and social services.
Ways to improve linkages and coordinated care among people with asthma include::
- Quality improvement initiatives;
- Patient-centered medical homes;
- Disease management or case management programs, and
- School or community-based programs.
Linkages and coordination of care across settings among people with asthma is part of EXHALE, a set of six strategies used by CDC’s National Asthma Control Program and its partners to help Americans with asthma.
Linkages and coordination of care across settings can:
- Improve medication adherence among people with asthma;
- Reduce asthma-related emergency department visits and hospitalizations;
- Decrease missed school days because of asthma; and
- Reduce healthcare costs.
Coordinated care includes linking people to needed healthcare and social services.
Ways to improve linkages and coordinated care among people with asthma include::
- Quality improvement initiatives;
- Patient-centered medical homes;
- Disease management or case management programs, and
- School or community-based programs.
This strategy is represented by the “L” in EXHALE. The six strategies in EXHALE can have the greatest impact when used together in every community.
Education
on asthma self-management
X-tinguishing
smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke
Home
visits for trigger reduction and asthma self-management education
Achievement
of guidelines-based medical management
LINKAGES
and coordination of care across settings
Environmental
policies or best practices to reduce asthma triggers from indoor, outdoor, or occupational sources
Learn more about how linkages and coordination of care across settings can help children and adults with asthma: https://www.cdc.gov/asthma/exhale/
