National

• Allergy and Asthma Network, Mothers of Asthmatics (AANMA)
  AANMA, a national nonprofit network of families, offers information about living with allergies and asthma, including information on policy issues such as pending legislation and children’s rights at school.
  • AANMA Policy Issues Page
    
    
• Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
  • Action Against Asthma: A Strategic Plan for the Department of Health and Human Services (May 2000)

    This strategy is designed to help achieve the national Healthy People 2010 goals for asthma. The strategy envisions close coordination between DHHS initiatives and activities led by professional societies, universities, non-governmental and community-based organizations, providers of medical care, businesses, and other federal, state, local, and tribal government agencies in pursuit of progress in these areas over the next five years.

  • Coordination of Federal Asthma Activities (pdf *)

    This report by the Federal Liaison Group on Asthma identifies federal programs that carry out asthma-related activities and contains recommendations on ways to strengthen and improve coordination of those activities.

• Pew Environmental Health Commission
  The Commission developed recommendations designed to bolster the nation’s ability to track and prevent health problems linked to conditions in the environment.
  • Attack Asthma: Why America Needs a Public Health Defense System to Battle Environmental Threats (pdf *)
    
    
• Thomas, Legislative Information on the Internet
  Information on the U.S. Congress and searchable database of federal legislation.
  • U.S. Legislative Branch
    Links to information about the legislative branch, the legislative process, and a searchable database of legislative branch Web sites.
    
    

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State and Local

• Library of Congress: State and Local Governments
  This site provides a meta-index of state and local government information and direct links to state government Web sites.
  
  
• National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL)
  NCSL is a bipartisan national forum for state lawmakers to communicate with one another and to share ideas on various topics, including asthma.
  • Asthma Web Resources
    This site includes links to policy briefs on asthma, analyses of state legislation, and a searchable database of state legislation and statutes.
  • Asthma, A Growing Epidemic (Environmental Health Series, 2000) (html, pdf *)
    
    
• StateLaw
  This site provides information on state governments and legislation from Washburn University School of Law.

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