U.S. EPA: Nationwide Online Asthma Care Improvement Network - Cadmus How Cadmus created and sustained a dynamic platform for health education programs to share, learn, and connect Nearly 26 million people in the United States, including more than 7 million children, have asthma. These numbers are growing, and economically disadvantaged and minority children suffer a greater burden. In 1999, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) launched a national asthma education and outreach campaign to promote management of environmental triggers that impact asthma. EPA’s goal was to make environmental asthma management a standard approach to care in order to improve the health and quality of life for Americans with asthma, and to reduce the costs of asthma care. A key component of the campaig

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