Table of contents
- Preliminary material
- Half title and verso pages
- Title and verso pages
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Summary
- Sections
- Introduction
- Status of current recommended asthma indicators
- Prevalence of ever having doctor-diagnosed asthma
- Prevalence of current asthma
- Prevalence of recent wheeze
- Prevalence of airway hyper responsiveness
- Impact of asthma on quality of life
- Index of asthma control
- Death rate for asthma, all ages
- Death rate for asthma, persons aged 5-34 years
- Prevalence of smoking in people with asthma
- Prevalence of smoking in the household where children with asthma reside
- Prevalence of occupational asthma
- Proportion of schools using the Asthma Friendly Schools program
- Hospital separation rate for asthma
- Hospital patient days for asthma
- Hospital re-admissions for asthma within 28 days
- Number of individuals with separations for asthma
- Rate of emergency department attendance for asthma
- Rate of asthma-related general practice encounters
- Rate of Asthma 3+ Visit Plan payments
- Health-care visits for acute episodes of asthma
- Proportion of people with asthma who have a written asthma action plan
- Proportion of people with asthma who use 'preventers' regularly
- The proportion of people with asthma who have had recent spirometry
- Costs of asthma
- Review of data development activities
- Survey questions
- Data linkage
- Validation of coding
- Other data development
- Future directions
- Ongoing monitoring
- Refining asthma indicators
- End matter
- References
- Appendix A