This page will provides links of interest for individuals interested in urban asthma issues.

Asthma Initatives | Asthma Care | Asthma and Housing | Asthma and Policy

Asthma Initatives
Massachusetts Asthma Action Plan (http://www.mhqp.org/asthma.html)

Asthma Care
Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America - (http://www.aafa.org)
Request for MassHealth and Children's Medical Security Plan benfits
CenterWatch: A Clinical Trials Listing Service (http://www.centerwatch.com/main.htm)

Asthma Action America - http://www.asthmaactionamerica.ibreathe.com/
e-ASTHMA, a complete one-stop Website to excellent Asthma Care (http://www.e-asthma.com/)
NAEPP Asthma Coalition Exchange (http://www.nhlbisupport.com/asthma/coalitioncorner/index.htm)
Asthma Management Model System (http://www.nhlbisupport.com/asthma/index.html)
Breath of Life (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/breath/breathhome.html)
American Lung Association (http://www.lungusa.org/)
American College of Chest Physicians (http://www.chestnet.org/)
American Board of Allergy and Immunology (http://www.abai.org/)
Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology Online (http://allergy.mcg.edu/)
American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology (http://www.aaaai.org/)
HealthLaw News Headlines (http://www.healthlaw.org/headlines.shtml)
National Survey of America's Families (http://newfederalism.urban.org/nsaf/foreword.html)
The Multicenter Airway Research Collaboration (http://healthcare.partners.org/marc/marc.htm)
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/error_messages/nhlbi.htm)
JAMA Asthma Information Center (http://www.ama-assn.org/special/asthma/asthma.htm)
Massachusetts Dept of Public Health Childhood Lead Poisoining Prevention (http://www.state.ma.us/dph/clppp/)
The Access Project (http://www.accessproject.org/)
National Institutes of Health (http://www.nih.gov/)
Division of Medical Assistance (http://www.magnet.state.ma.us/dma/)

Asthma and Housing
The National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty (http://www.nlchp.org/)
The Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law (http://www.bazelon.org/housing.html)
National Fair Housing Advocate (http://www.fairhousing.com/)
National Housing Law Project (http://www.nhlp.org/)
National Shelter (http://sunsite.anu.edu.au/community/natshelter/)
National Housing Institute (http://www.nhi.org/)
The Urban Institute (http://www.urban.org/)
National Low Income Housing Coalition (http://www.nlihc.org/)
American Bar Assoc Forum: Affordable Housing, Community Development (http://www.abanet.org/forums/affordable/)
Landlord, Tenant Rental Housing Law (http://www.cses.com/rental/ltlaw.htm)
Orientation to Indoor Air Quality (http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/ccpe/programs/OIAQ.shtml)
Homes and Communities/US Housing and Urban Development (http://www.hud.gov/)
TenantNet (http://tenant.net/)

Asthma and Policy
Pesticides
Rachel Carson Council (http://members.aol.com/rccouncil/ourpage/index.htm)

Community Change
Center for Community Change (http://www.communitychange.org/default.htm)
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (http://www.cbpp.org/)
Center for the Study of Social Policy (http://www.cssp.org/)
Capital Research Center (http://www.capitalresearch.org/)
National Center on Policy Law (http://www.povertylaw.org/)

Legal Services
Legal Services Corporation (http://www.lsc.gov/index2.htm)

Law
Americans With Disabilities Act Document Center (http://janweb.icdi.wvu.edu/kinder/)
Legal Information Institute (http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/)
General Accounting Office Reports (http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aces160.shtml)
FindLaw (http://www.findlaw.com/)
Massachusetts Laws/Regulations/Rulings (http://www.magnet.state.ma.us/law.htm)

Government
National Council of State Legislatures Health Topic Web Index (http://www.ncsl.org/programs/health/list.htm)

Public Health
Public Health Policy Advisory Board (http://www.phpab.org)

Boston Urban Asthma Coalition
622 Washington Street
Dorchester, MA 02124
(617) 423-4337
fax (617) 282-3950
jzotter@tmfnet.org

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