Community Action Against Asthma (CAAA)
Exposure Assessment
Exposure Assessment
A total of eleven seasonal assessments of environmental exposure and
asthma status have been conducted since 1999. These consist of:
indoor and outdoor daily air quality measurements from two elementary
schools; personal monitoring where a sub-set of children wear back-packs
with devices that collect information on particulate matter, and indoor
air sampling, where machines with special filters are installed in the
homes of this same sub-set of children to obtain indoor air quality
information, both for a one-week period each season; and measurements of
lung functioning, which are taken through use of an “Airwatch Monitor,” a
device distributed to families each season; a daily diary where families
record asthma symptoms and medication use during this same time period;
and daily air quality measurements (outdoor and indoor) which are
collected at two elementary schools.
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