title: Recent advances in environmental controls outside the home setting.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  It has been well studied that aeroallergen, mold, and airborne pollutant exposure in the inner-city home environment is associated with significant childhood asthma morbidity. Although the home environment has been extensively studied, the school environment is less well understood.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In this article, we discuss the relationship between environmental exposures within the school and daycare environment and pediatric asthma morbidity and novel environmental interventions designed to help mitigate pediatric asthma morbidity.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Studies assessing environmental exposures outside the home environment and interventions to mitigate these exposures have the potential to reduce pediatric asthma morbidity. Further study in this area should focus on the complex cost benefit analyses of environmental interventions outside the home setting, while controlling for the home environment.
authors: aDivision of General Pediatrics bDivision of Allergy and Immunology, Boston Children's Hospital cHarvard Medical School dRegion 1 New England Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
authors: Marissa
authors: M
authors: Hauptman
authors: Wanda
authors: W
authors: Phipatanakul
mesh_terms: D016902:Air Pollution, Indoor / Q000009:adverse effects*; D000485:Allergens / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000276:immunology; D000818:Animals; D001249:Asthma / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D002648:Child; D002656:Child Day Care Centers; D004781:Environmental Exposure / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D012574:Schools; D014505:Urban Population
chemical_list: D000485:Allergens