Asthma Community Sites, FaceBook Groups and Forums

About.com Asthma Forum

• Description: "About.com is an online neighborhood of hundreds of helpful experts, eager to share their wealth of knowledge with visitors."
• Quality: About.com is recognized as a top 15 content site and one of the largest producers of original content on the Web.

AsthmaCommunityNetwork.org

• Description: "AsthmaCommunityNetwork.org is an interactive asthma network that offers tools and resources to help community-based programs advance asthma care. Share, learn, and connect with peers through asthma blogs, discussion forums, community events, the asthma resource bank, member polls, asthma webinars, and more."
• Quality: The community features clear description, FAQ, disclaimer and contact information.

Daily Strength - Asthma Forum

• Description: "Discuss Asthma with others who understand what you're going through."
• Quality: It is accredited by HONcode.

eHealthForum - Asthma Forums

• Description: "Welcome to the Asthma Forum - a health community featuring member and doctor discussions ranging from a specific symptom to related conditions, treatment options, medication, side effects, diet, and emotional issues surrounding medical conditions."
• Quality: It is accredited by HONcode.

Everyday Health - Asthma and Allergies Group

• Description: "Do you suffer from seasonal allergies, food allergies, skin rashes, or asthma? Are you a parent concerned with childhood allergies or asthma in children? Talk about symptoms, causes, treatment, and medication for asthma and allergies."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode

Healia - Asthma Online Health Community and Support Group

• Description: "Through this Asthma support group, you can get Asthma information, share experiences about Asthma, connect with peers, and get answers to your Asthma questions from health professionals."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

HealingWell - Allergy and Asthma Community Forum

• Description: "HealingWell.com is a thriving social network and support community for patients, caregivers, and families coping with the daily struggles of diseases, disorders and chronic illness."
• Quality: Health content is contributed by reputable health organizations, including the National Institutes of Health, Mediwire and e-HealthSource.

HealthCentral - Asthma Community

• Description: "Make a connection, ask a question, share a concern, give advice or just chat. Our message boards connect you with a community of people who understand where you’re coming from and what you’re going through."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

Inspire - Asthma Community

• Description: An online community connecting patients with asthma and allergies, and their caregivers, family and friends.
• Quality: Sponsored by the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America.

MDJunction - Asthma Community

• Description: "A community of patients, family members and friends dedicated to dealing with Asthma, together."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

MedHelp - Asthma Community

• Description: "The MedHelp site connects people with the leading medical experts and others who have similar experiences. Today, MedHelp empowers over 5.5 million people each month to take control over their health and find answers to their medical questions. MedHelp has over 14 years of accumulated information from doctors and other patients across hundreds of conditions."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

Medpedia - Asthma and COPD

• Description: "This is a community for patients, providers, caregivers and others interested in learning more about Asthma and related conditions such as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)."
• Quality: Medpedia is a medical encyclopaedia managed and edited by medical professionals.

Netdoctor - Asthma Forum

• Description: "We want to break down the "medical language barrier" between the doctor and the patient. Critical medical information must be presented in a clear and understandable language so that the patient fully understands his or her choices and decisions. Ultimately, it is the patient who must make the critical health choices."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

Revolution Health - Asthma Community

• Organizer: "Revolution Health is a leading consumer-centric health company founded to transform how people approach their overall health and wellness. By putting individuals at the center of their own healthcare, Revolution Health allows them to make informed choices and offers more convenience and control over their individual healthcare decisions."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

WebMD® - Asthma Community

• Description: "Understand your allergies and symptoms from experts and get everyday advise from those who suffer with you."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

Facebook is a free social networking site where users can join groups. In these groups, members can post messages, interact with others or find relevant content. A few of the numerous asthma groups:

Asthma

• Description and content: "All of you who suffer from Asthma "

Asthma - Helping You Help Yourself

• Description and content: "This group aims to provide a free, reliable resource through which all your questions regarding Asthma can be answered. We will keep you in touch with all things asthma, from events to current research, aswell as providing a place for asthmatics alike to interact and help one another."

Asthma Allies

• Description and content: "Asthma Allies is a non-profit asthma education organization with the mission to improve the quality of life for individuals with asthma. This is accomplished by raising awareness about asthma, providing evidence-based asthma education, addressing disparity and access issues and encouraging asthma self-management through a team approach."

Asthma Support Group

• Description and content: "A place where people with/or carers of someone with asthma can swap hints and tips and make new friends."

Children and Asthma

• Description and content: "This group for anyone to join to talk about their children and asthma. This is such a terrible thing for anyone to have, especially children."

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