Table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Title and verso pages
    • Contents
    • Acknowledgments
    • Abbreviations
    • Summary
  • Body section
    • 1 Introduction
    • 2 Hospitalisations for asthma
      • Hospitalisation data
      • Hospitalisations in 2010-11
      • Population subgroups
      • Trends over time
      • Seasonal variation
    • 3 Asthma comorbidities
      • Comorbidities when asthma is the principal diagnosis
      • Principal diagnoses when asthma is an additional diagnosis
    • 4 Invasive mechanical ventilation
      • Population subgroups
      • Trends over time
    • 5 Health expenditure on asthma
      • Estimating health expenditure on asthma
      • Direct health expenditure on asthma
      • Other impacts of asthma
  • End matter
    • Appendix A: Methods and data sources
      • A.1 Analysis methods
      • A.2 Data sources
      • A.3 Population subgroup analysis
    • Appendix B: Additional tables
    • Glossary
    • References
    • List of tables
    • List of figures