Better home visits for asthma lessons learned from the Seattle-King County Asthma Program.

Asthma remains a major cause of morbidity and health inequities among children. In response, practitioners and researchers have developed nnovative interventions to improve asthma control. One uch intervention is home visits to help families reduce xposure to multiple indoor asthma triggers. The Guide oCommunity Preventive Services (CommunityGuide), as escribed in this supplement to the American Journal of reventive Medicine, recently reviewed the evidence for he effectiveness of home visits and recommended wider mplementation of this approach. The Seattle–King County Asthma Program has developed and evaluated several home-visit programs over the past 12 years, including the Healthy Homes I and II research projects and the Steps to Health and Allies gainst Asthma home-visit programs. In the course of this work, we have learnedmany lessons. Table 1 summarizes these lessons, and we describe the most salient ones in more detail here.