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EPA’s Indoor Environments Division (IED) will showcase solutions to help communities reduce indoor environmental risks to improve asthma disparities and community health, including health care reimbursement for multi-sector workforces that deliver home environmental asthma interventions.
IED will host a series of three webinars starting on September 13, 2022, to explore ways to address the indoor environmental determinants of health (IEDOH) where they cluster—in homes and communities—with a combination of the following:
- Health care reimbursement mechanisms in use across states to support asthma home visits.
- Trends in health care to pay new team members (e.g., community health workers) for home visits and for new services, including some home environment modifications.
- Best asthma care strategies that align with environmental health equity goals where health and housing sectors collaborate to deliver healthy housing solutions.
Please join EPA and health leaders from California, and partners you bring with you from your communities, to explore—
- Technical solutions that state health care policy makers and community partners are pioneering to improve asthma outcomes, reduce health disparities and cultivate health equity.
- Innovations to address IEDOH through clinic and community integration, such as asthma home visits with environmental interventions for children who need them for asthma control.
- Ways to collaborate between health care, public health, housing, community development, energy and others to put the latest IEDOH policies and science to work to improve asthma.
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