Table of contents
- Foreword-
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Highlights
- Introduction
- Prevalence
- Impact
- Quality of life, severity and disability
- Mortality
- Risk factors for asthma
- Smoking in people with asthma
- Passive smoke exposure in children with asthma
- Management and care
- Asthma-related general practice encounters
- Asthma action plans
- Medication use
- Spirometry
- Attendance at hospital Emergency Departments
- Hospitalisations
- Appendix 1
- A1.1 Data sources
- A1.2 Classifications used in this report
- A1.3 Analysis methods
- Appendix 2: Statistical tables
- Abbreviations
- Glossary
- References