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Publication table of contents

• Preliminary material
  • Half title and verso pages
  • Title and verso pages
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Summary
• Sections
  1. Introduction
  2. Status of current recommended asthma indicators
     1. Prevalence of ever having doctor-diagnosed asthma
     2. Prevalence of current asthma
     3. Prevalence of recent wheeze
     4. Prevalence of airway hyper responsiveness
     5. Impact of asthma on quality of life
     6. Index of asthma control
     7. Death rate for asthma, all ages
     8. Death rate for asthma, persons aged 5-34 years
     9. Prevalence of smoking in people with asthma
     10. Prevalence of smoking in the household where children with asthma reside
     11. Prevalence of occupational asthma
     12. Proportion of schools using the Asthma Friendly Schools program
     13. Hospital separation rate for asthma
     14. Hospital patient days for asthma
     15. Hospital re-admissions for asthma within 28 days
     16. Number of individuals with separations for asthma
     17. Rate of emergency department attendance for asthma
     18. Rate of asthma-related general practice encounters
     19. Rate of Asthma 3+ Visit Plan payments
     20. Health-care visits for acute episodes of asthma
     21. Proportion of people with asthma who have a written asthma action plan
     22. Proportion of people with asthma who use 'preventers' regularly
     23. The proportion of people with asthma who have had recent spirometry
     24. Costs of asthma
  3. Review of data development activities
     1. Survey questions
     2. Data linkage
     3. Validation of coding
     4. Other data development
  4. Future directions
     1. Ongoing monitoring
     2. Refining asthma indicators
• End matter
  • References
  • Appendix A