effectiveness and sustainability of asthma control services, conduct comprehensive adult and pediatric surveillance, and to reduce asthma morbidity, mortality, and disparities. (13) The alarming rise in the prevalence of asthma, its adverse effect on school attendance and productivity, and its cost for hospitalizations and emergency room visits, highlight the importance of public health interventions, including increasing awareness of asthma as a chronic illness, its symptoms, the role of both indoor and outdoor environmental factors that exacerbate the disease, and other factors that affect its exacerbations and severity. The goals of the Federal Government and its partners in the nonprofit and private sectors should include reducing the number and severity of asthma attacks, asthma’s financial burden, and the health disparities associated with asthma. 3. Asthma-related activities of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Section 317I of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 247b–10 ) is amended to read as follows: 317I. Asthma-related activities of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (a) Program for providing information and education to the public The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Director of the National Center for Environmental Health, shall collaborate with State and local health departments to conduct activities regarding asthma, including the provision of information and education to the public regarding asthma, including— (1) deterring the harmful consequences of uncontrolled asthma