Donald T. Ryan, MURP, Alliance for Healthy Homes, 227 Massachusetts Avenue, NE #200, Washington, DC 20002, 202-543-1147, dyan@afhh.org

This session will provide information about low-cost tools for assessing housing-related health hazards, including asthma triggers. This session would describe the tools developed through the Community Environmental Health Resource Center for identifying conditions in housing that are recognized as potential asthma triggers (e.g., mold and moisture, cockroaches, CO, and dust allergens) and lead hazards. Community health programs conducting home visits could potentially integrate such tools into their assessment processes. This session will focus on practical tools for field application, rather than research protocols.

Learning Objectives:

• Presenting low-cost, low-tech tools for identifying health hazards in housing.
• Sharing field results from the Community Environmental Health Resource Center.
• Discussing how such easy-to-use tools can be integrated into other home assessments.

Keywords: Healthy Buildings, Primary Prevention

Related Web page: www.cehrc.org

Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.