The task force recommends the use of home-based, multitrigger, multicomponent interventions with an environmental focus for children and adolescents with asthma, on the basis of strong evidence of effectiveness in reducing symptom-days, improving quality of life scores or symptom scores, and reducing the number of school days missed.

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Task Force on Community Preventive Services. Recommendations from the Task Force on Community Preventive Services to decrease asthma morbidity through home-based, multi-trigger, multicomponent interventions [Internet]. Am J Prev Med. 2011 [cited 2013 Jan 19];41(2S1):S1-S4. Available from: http://www.thecommunityguide.org/asthma/supportingmaterials/asthma%20task%20force%20recs.pdf