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released: 21 Jul 2005 author: Australian Centre for Asthma Monitoring media release

This report provides a summary of two aspects of the economic impact of asthma in Australia: health care expenditure on asthma and burden of disease attributable to asthma-related disability and premature mortality. The information contained in this report will help guide the formation of health policy in relation to asthma.

ISBN 978 1 74024 475 6; Cat. no. ACM 5; 44pp.; $22.00

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Publication table of contents

  • Preliminary material (108K PDF)
    • List of tables and figures
    • Contributors
    • Acknowledgments
    • Abbreviations
    • Highlights
  • Sections (318K PDF)
    • Introduction
      • Methods and data sources
      • Health system expenditure data
      • Burden of disease data
      • Limitations of current methods
    • Health expenditure
      • Overall asthma expenditure
      • Asthma expenditure by health sector
    • Disease burden
      • Leading causes of disease burden in Australia
      • Disease burden due to asthma in Australia
    • Discussion and conclusions
  • End matter (163K PDF)
    • Appendix: Statistical tables
    • Glossary
    • References

Notes and corrections

The current version of the publication is presented above.
Previous versions of files that have been updated or corrected are presented below.

  1. 20050726: The following errors in the printed version of this report have been corrected in the downloadable version:
    • Page 14, Figure 3.7 Y-axis scale represents whole percentages and not fractions of 100.
    • Page 22, Figure 4.3 Y-axis label spelling correction (population)
    • Page 9, Figure 3.2 Y-axis title changed to "per cent" instead of "%" to be consistent with all other figures.

Recommended citation

Australian Centre for Asthma Monitoring 2005. Health care expenditure and the burden of disease due to asthma in Australia. Cat. no. ACM 5. Canberra: AIHW.