Asthma in Australia 2005

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Asthma series no. 2

Asthma is an important health problem in Australia. This report brings together data from a wide range of sources to describe the current status of Asthma in Australia. It includes information on the number of people who have asthma, who receive various treatments for asthma, who have written asthma action plans, and who visit their GP, are hospitalised or die due to asthma. Health care expenditure for asthma is also discussed. In addition, a chapter has been included in this report that focuses on asthma in Australian children.

Authored by Australian Centre for Asthma Monitoring.

Published 12 August 2005; ISSN 1448-7594; ISBN-13 978 1 74024 487 9; AIHW cat. no. ACM 6; 236pp.; OUT OF PRINT

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Preliminary material (258K PDF)
- Foreword
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Highlights
Sections
1. Introduction (165K PDF)
  1. What is asthma?
    - Types of asthma
    - Risk factors for asthma
  2. Responses to asthma in Australia
    - Historical background
    - Australian Government initiatives
    - State government asthma programs
    - National Asthma Council Australia
    - Asthma Foundations of Australia
  3. Overview of this report
2. Asthma in children (1.2M PDF)
  - Introduction (56K PDF)
  1. Prevalence of asthma in children (387K PDF)
    - International comparisons
    - Differentials in the prevalence of current asthma among children
  2. Health service use for asthma among children (806K PDF)
    - General practice encounters for asthma among children
    - Visits by children to hospital emergency departments for asthma
    - Hospitalisations for asthma in children
  3. Management of asthma in children (137K PDF)
    - Written asthma action plans
    - Medication use
  - Summary
3. Prevalence (774K PDF)
  - Introduction
  1. Prevalence of asthma
    - Time trends in the prevalence of current asthma (188K PDF)
    - International comparisons (282K PDF)
    - Differentials in the prevalence of current asthma (385K PDF)
  - Summary
4. Mortality (855K PDF)
  - Introduction
  1. Deaths due to asthma
    - Asthma as an underlying or associated cause of death (139K PDF)
    - Time trends in asthma deaths (258K PDF)
    - International comparisons (242K PDF)
    - Differentials in asthma mortality (377K PDF)
    - Seasonal variation in mortality risk (104K PDF)
  - Summary
5. Use of health services (2.13M PDF)
  - Introduction
  1. General practice encounters (594K PDF)
    - Time trends in general practice encounters for asthma
    - Differentials in general practice encounters for asthma
    - Asthma 3+ Visit Plan Practice Incentive Program claims
    - Differentials in Asthma 3+ Visit Plan Practice Incentive Program claims
    - Summary
  2. Hospital emergency department visits (408K PDF)
    - Time trends in ED visits for asthma
    - Differentials in ED visits for asthma
    - Summary
  3. Hospitalisations (882K PDF)
    - Time trends in hospital use for asthma
    - Seasonal variation in hospital use for asthma
    - Differentials in hospital use for asthma
    - Summary
  4. Invasive mechanical ventilation (269K PDF)
    - Time trends in invasive mechanical ventilation for asthma
    - Differentials in invasive mechanical ventilation for asthma
    - Summary
  5. Re-attendances for asthma (215K PDF)
    - Summary
6. Management (1.3 M PDF)
  - Introduction
  1. Written asthma action plans (279K PDF)
    - Possession of written asthma action plans
    - Time trends in the possession of written asthma action plans
    - Differentials in the possession of written asthma action plans
    - Summary
  2. Medication use (420K PDF)
    - Time trends in medication supply for respiratory conditions
    - Differentials in the use of asthma medication
    - Summary
  3. Spirometry (405K PDF)
    - Time trends in spirometry use
    - Differentials in spirometry use
    - Summary
7. Smoking (419K PDF)
  - Introduction
  1. People with asthma who smoke
    - Differentials in smoking
    - Summary
  2. Passive smoke exposure in children with asthma
    - Differentials in children exposed to passive smoke
    - Smoking in homes where children reside
    - Summary
8. Quality of life and markers of asthma control (360K PDF)
  - Introduction
  1. Impact of asthma on self-assessed health
  2. Impact of asthma on the domains of HRQoL
    - Physical domain of HRQoL
    - Psychological domain of HRQoL
    - Social domain of HRQoL
  3. Markers of asthma control
    - Assessment of the severity of asthma
    - Sleep disturbance due to asthma
  - Summary
9. Expenditure (392K PDF)
  - Introduction
  1. Overall expenditure on asthma
  2. Expenditure by health care sector
  3. Changes in expenditure on asthma, 1993-94 to 2000-01
  - Summary
End matter
- Appendixes
  1. Data sources, definitions and population groups (320K PDF)
    1. Analysis methods
      1. Rates
      2. Confidence intervals
      3. Tests of statistical significance
    2. Asthma definitions used for measuring prevalence
    3. BEACH (Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health) and SAND (Supplementary Analysis of Nominated Data)
      1. BEACH data
      2. SAND data
    4. Emergency department data
      1. Limitations of emergency department data
    5. Expenditure data
      1. Expenditure for hospital care
      2. Out-of-hospital medical care expenditure
      3. Pharmaceutical expenditure
      4. Other costs
      5. Limitations of expenditure data
    6. Health survey data
      1. National Health Survey
      2. National Health Survey (Indigenous)
      3. State/territory CATI surveys
    7. Medical Benefits Schedule statistics
      1. Asthma 3+ Visit Plan Practice Incentive Program
      2. Spirometry A1.8 Medication data
    8. Medication data
      1. IMS Health pharmaceutical data
      2. Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme and Repatriation Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme data
      3. Calculation of defined daily dose per 1,000 population per day
    9. Hospital data
      1. Limitations of the National Hospital Morbidity Database
      2. Hospital diagnosis codes
      3. Comparability factors for hospitalisation data
      4. Mechanical ventilation
      5. Re-attendance data
    10. Mortality data
      1. Limitations in mortality data
      2. Cause of death codes
      3. Comparability factors for mortality data
    11. Population data
    12. Population groups
      1. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians
      2. Culturally and linguistically diverse background
      3. Socio-economic disadvantage
      4. Urban, rural and remote areas
  2. Statistical tables (141K PDF)
    - Asthma in children
    - Prevalence
    - Hospitalisations
    - Patient days
    - General practice
    - Mortality
    - Expenditure
- Abbreviations (53K PDF)
- Glossary (89K PDF)
- References (114K PDF)

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