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Policy Reports Recommendations (Total studies = 75)● Conduct research studies for community disease assessment, risk factors andquality improvement studies/interventions. Conduct research studies to help clarifythe relationships among environmental exposures, socio-economic factors and otherrisk factors, and disease incidence and exacerbations particularly in children.Encourage public and private sources to direct funding toward research into effectivestrategies to prevent overweight and obesity and to maximize limited family andcommunity resources to achieve healthful outcomes for youth.Academic Performance-relatedClaims● Improve understanding of early life origins of asthma and risk factors for asthmafatalities.● Conduct research on access, coverage, and quality of care and life in specialpopulations.● Develop a diabetes registry.Public Education and Awareness/ Behavior modifying education (n=11)● Launch long-term national and state, culturally sensitive public education campaignon asthma and diabetes.● Implement a targeted education program to policy and decision-makers thatincludes information on childhood asthma prevention, management, respectiveservices and health promotion education at schools. Work with state legislators,advocacy groups, local policy makers, and businesses to enhance environmentaland policy changes that support healthful eating habits and physical activity.● Develop and disseminate linguistically and culturally appropriate programs andmaterials on chronic diseases, their self-management and the "best practices",services offered, and information on evaluated interventions and disseminationmechanisms.● Increase use of buses to go to schools or work, walking and bicycling.● Encourage adolescents with and at risk for diabetes to engage in regular physicalactivity, make good nutritional choices, and avoid or stop smoking.Environmental Policies● Develop a cohesive national tracking strategy to identify environmental hazards,measure population exposures, and track health conditions related to theenvironment with a tracking list to the communities and research.● Reduce emission in new vehicles, use clean fuel, encourage the replacement ofold diesel trucks and buses with trucks and buses powered by cleaner alternativefuels such as natural gas; develop zero emission vehicles. Limit the amount of timeships are permitted to idle while at port.● Enforce housing codes and reduce exposure to asthma triggers such ascockroaches, environmental tobacco smoke, mold, and dust.Social policies● Ensure the availability of affordable, quality housing and free of asthma triggers.(a) strong evidence of effectiveness was found; (b) sufficient evidence of effectiveness was found; (c) available studies providedinsufficient evidence to assess the effectiveness of the intervention.E-42