Table of contents
- Preliminary material
- Foreword
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Highlights
- Sections
- Introduction
- What is asthma?
- Responses to asthma in Australia
- Overview of this report
- Asthma in children
- Introduction
- Prevalence of asthma in children
- Health service use for asthma among children
- Management of asthma in children
- Summary
- Prevalence
- Introduction
- Prevalence of asthma
- Time trends in the prevalence of current asthma
- International comparisons
- Differentials in the prevalence of current asthma
- Summary
- Mortality
- Introduction
- Deaths due to asthma
- Asthma as an underlying or associated cause of death
- Time trends in asthma deaths
- International comparisons
- Differentials in asthma mortality
- Seasonal variation in mortality risk
- Summary
- Use of health services
- Introduction
- General practice encounters
- Hospital emergency department visits
- Hospitalisations
- Invasive mechanical ventilation
- Re-attendances for asthma
- Management
- Introduction
- Written asthma action plans
- Medication use
- Spirometry
- Smoking
- Introduction
- People with asthma who smoke
- Passive smoke exposure in children with asthma
- Quality of life and markers of asthma control
- Introduction
- Impact of asthma on self-assessed health
- Impact of asthma on the domains of HRQoL
- Markers of asthma control
- Summary
- Expenditure
- Introduction
- Overall expenditure on asthma
- Expenditure by health care sector
- Changes in expenditure on asthma, 1993-94 to 2000-01
- Summary
- Introduction
- End matter
- Appendixes
- Data sources, definitions and population groups
- Statistical tables
- Abbreviations
- Glossary
- References
- Appendixes