Highlights
- CDC’s National Asthma Control Program (NACP) was created in 1999 to help the millions of people with asthma in the United States gain control over their disease.
- NACP currently funds 29 programs to improve the reach, quality, effectiveness, and sustainability of asthma control services and to reduce asthma morbidity, mortality, and disparities by implementing evidence-based strategies through a 4-year cooperative agreement.
Overview
The program’s goals include reducing the number of deaths, hospitalizations, emergency department visits, school days or workdays missed, and limitations on activity due to asthma. Today, CDC funds 29 state, territorial, and municipal health departments to ensure the availability of and access to guidelines-based medical management and pharmacotherapy for all people with asthma and to address the intersection of public health and health care through funding state programs and national organizations, promoting asthma quality measures, and informing policy makers about the burden of asthma.
Who has received funding
CDC announces 29 awards for the new cooperative agreement "Advancing Health Equity in Asthma Control through EXHALE Strategies."
This four year agreement is based on EXHALE, a set of six strategies that contribute to improved asthma control through addressing systems-level, environmental, and social drivers of asthma disparities:
- 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
- Environmental policies or best practices to reduce indoor and outdoor asthma triggers
The 29 award recipients are California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washington DC, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
Current initiatives
NACP currently funds 29 state, territorial, and municipal partners to improve the reach, quality, effectiveness, and sustainability of asthma control services and to reduce asthma morbidity, mortality, and disparities by implementing evidence-based strategies through a 5-year cooperative agreement.
Outcomes
The program has improved asthma treatment, management, and control in the U.S. CDC’s funded programs have improved the quality of asthma care, improved asthma management in schools, and fostered policies to help reduce air pollution.