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A strong public health infrastructure is essential to ensure adequate capacity and training to prevent asthma, promote asthma management, and to prepare for and respond to challenges to health. An adequate public health infrastructure should be prepared for and resilient to the impacts of climate change. This infrastructure should recognize that asthma is both a chronic and environmental disease while identifying cross-cutting risk factors that include addressing social determinants of health and asthma management for underserved disproportionally affected populations. It should also provide funding for comprehensive asthma programs, and promote the establishment, maintenance or enhancement of surveillance systems to monitor trends in asthma. In each state, multiple groups, agencies, and individuals are working on asthma, but sometimes their efforts are uncoordinated. Coordination among these groups is essential. By encouraging policymakers to help create a solid public health infrastructure, you could help all those affected by asthma and other lung diseases.
Here are three policy recommendations from the National Asthma Public Policy Agenda relating to public health infrastructure.
