Table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Foreword
    • List of tables
    • List of figures
    • Contributors
    • Acknowledgments
    • Highlights
  • Sections
    1. Introduction
      1. What is asthma?
      2. Responses to asthma in Australia
      3. Overview of this report
    2. Asthma in children
      • Introduction
      1. Prevalence of asthma in children
      2. Health service use for asthma among children
      3. Management of asthma in children
      • Summary
    3. Prevalence
      • Introduction
      1. Prevalence of asthma
        • Time trends in the prevalence of current asthma
        • International comparisons
        • Differentials in the prevalence of current asthma
      • Summary
    4. Mortality
      • Introduction
      1. 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
    5. Use of health services
      • Introduction
      1. General practice encounters
      2. Hospital emergency department visits
      3. Hospitalisations
      4. Invasive mechanical ventilation
      5. Re-attendances for asthma
    6. Management
      • Introduction
      1. Written asthma action plans
      2. Medication use
      3. Spirometry
    7. Smoking
      • Introduction
      1. People with asthma who smoke
      2. Passive smoke exposure in children with asthma
    8. Quality of life and markers of asthma control
      • Introduction
      1. Impact of asthma on self-assessed health
      2. Impact of asthma on the domains of HRQoL
      3. Markers of asthma control
      • Summary
    9. Expenditure
      • Introduction
      1. Overall expenditure on asthma
      2. Expenditure by health care sector
      3. Changes in expenditure on asthma, 1993-94 to 2000-01
      • Summary
  • End matter
    • Appendixes
      1. Data sources, definitions and population groups
      2. Statistical tables
    • Abbreviations
    • Glossary
    • References