Table of contents

  • Preliminary pages
    • Title & verso pages
    • Contents
    • Acknowledgments
    • Abbreviations
    • Summary  
  • Body section
    1. Introduction
      1. Background issues
        • Diagnosis
        • Management
      2. Asthma over the life course
      3. Monitoring asthma in older Australians
    2. Population statistics
      1. Age distribution
      2. Gender
      3. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
      4. Remoteness
      5. Socioeconomic status
    3. Asthma and the older person
      1. Disability and burden of disease
      2. Mortality
    4. Asthma and health service use
      1. General practice encounters
      2. Hospitalisations
        1. Trends in hospital separations for asthma
        2. Indigenous status
        3. Trends in the length of hospital stays
    5. Comorbidities at death in older people with asthma
      1. Comorbidities
      2. Trends in mortality and comorbidities
    6. Discussion
  • End matter
    • Appendixes
      1. Further discussion of recent increases in deaths due to asthma
    • References
    • List of figures
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