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asthma common chronic disease childhood united states causes significant morbidity particularly innercity accounts billions dollars health care utilization home environments established sources exposure exacerbate symptoms homebased interventions effective however elementary school children spend 7 12h day school primarily one classroom observational school innercity asthma study learned student classroomspecific exposures associated worsening asthma symptoms decline lung function embark randomized blinded shamcontrolled school environmental intervention trial built extensively established schoolcommunity partnerships determine efficacy schoolbased intervention improve asthma control factorial schoolclassroom based environmental intervention plan enroll 300 students asthma multiple classrooms 40 northeastern innercity elementary schools schools randomized receive either integrated pest management versus control classrooms within schools receive either air purifiers sham control primary outcome asthma symptoms school year study unprecedented opportunity test whether community children benefit school classroom environmental interventions effective great impact efficient costeffective intervention inner city children asthma may broad public policy implications