epa-award2009Winners of the 2009 National Environmental Leadership Award in Asthma Management from the EPA.

Did You Know?

  •  Do you know what happens to the lungs during an asthma attack, what commonly triggers asthma, and how asthma can be controlled?
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  • Whooping Cough and Asthma: Before your children go back to school, make sure you know the new immunization law that requires all students entering the 7th – 12th grades have a Pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine or booster shot.  
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  • Age-Adjusted Asthma Hospitalizations and ED Visits per 10,000 Alameda County Residents by Race/Ethnicity, 2008
    Events White Black HispanicAsian/PI
    Hospitalizations 9.7 45.4 11.8 8.0
    ED Visits 44.5 225.8 44.3 19.7

    Data Source: Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD), 1998-2008.

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