Asthma in Australia 2005
Figure 2.12
Emergency department visits for asthma per 100 children with asthma, by age group and sex, children aged 0 to 18 years, New South Wales and Victoria, 1999 to 2004
Note: Data are aggregated from July 1999 to June 2004 and include average ED presentations for asthma for New South Wales and Victoria combined.
Sources: NSW Emergency Department Data Collection (EDDC) (HOIST), Centre for Epidemiology and Research, NSW Department of Health; Victorian Emergency Minimum Dataset (VEMD), Victorian Department of Human Services; Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Data table
| Age group (years) | Boys (95% CI) |
Girls (95% CI) |
||
| 0 to 1 | 42.1 |
(40.8–43.4) |
54.0 |
(51.8–56.2) |
| 2 to 4 | 18.4 |
(18.0–18.9) |
11.2 |
(10.8–11.5) |
| 5 to 11 | 4.2 |
(4.1–4.3) |
3.9 |
(3.7–4.0) |
| 12 to 18 | 2.1 |
(2.0–2.2) |
2.9 |
(2.8–3.0) |
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