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