Table of Contents | Chapter 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 | Appendix 1 2 | References |
List of Tables
| Chapter 2: Asthma in children | |
Prevalence of asthma ever being diagnosed in children, Australia, 1999–2004 |
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| Table 2.2 | Prevalence of current asthma in children, Australia, 1999–2004 |
| Table 2.3 | Prevalence of asthma in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, Australia, 1998–2003 |
| Chapter 3: Prevalence | |
| Table 3.1 | Prevalence of asthma ever being diagnosed by a doctor, adults, most recent health survey results, Australia, 1998–2004 |
| Table 3.2 | Prevalence of current asthma in adults, most recent health survey results, Australia, 1998–2004 |
| Table 3.3 | Prevalence of asthma in children, most recent health survey results, Australia, 2001–2004 |
| Table 3.4 | Prevalence of asthma among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, Australia, 1999–2001 |
| Chapter 4: Mortality [back to top] | |
| Table 4.1 | Deaths where asthma was the underlying or an associated cause, Australia, 2003 |
| Chapter 6: Management | |
| Table 6.1 | Possession of asthma action plans: people with current asthma, Australia, 1998–2001 |
| Chapter 7: Smoking | |
| Table 7.1 | Children who live in homes where smoking occurs in the home, Australia, 2001–2004 |
| Chapter 8: Quality of life and markers of asthma control [back to top] | |
| Table 8.1 | Self-assessed health in adults with and without current asthma, Australia, 1998–2004 |
| Table 8.2 | Physical component of quality of life, adults, Australia, 1998–2001 |
| Table 8.3 | Psychological component of quality of life, adults, Australia, 1998–2004 |
| Table 8.4 | Social component of quality of life, adults and children with current asthma, Australia, 1998–2001 |
| Table 8.5 | NAC Asthma Management Handbook assessment of asthma severity in adults |
| Table 8.6 | Assessment of asthma severity according to the SAND asthma module, adults and children, 1999–2003 |
| Table 8.7 | Proportion of adults with current asthma whose sleep was disturbed by asthma, Australia, 1998–2000 |
| Chapter 9: Expenditure | |
| Table 9.1 | Expenditure on asthma per capita, Australia, 1993–94 and 2000–01 |
| Appendix Tables [back to top] | |
| Table A1.1 | Asthma definitions used in the National Health Survey and state CATI surveys |
| Table A1.2 | Questions from the asthma module of the ABS National Health Survey 2001 |
| Table A1.3 | Medical Benefits Schedule item numbers for spirometry |
| Table A1.4 | Classification of respiratory medications |
| Table A1.5 | Comparability factors for hospital separations for asthma |
| Table A1.6 | Disease codes |
| Table A1.7 | Comparability factors for asthma mortality data |
| Table A1.8 | SEIFA quintiles and their corresponding IRSD score |
| Table A1.9 | ABS classes of remoteness, by ASGC and their definition |
| Table A1.10 | RRMA classifications of remoteness and their definition |
| Statistical tables [back to top] | |
| Table A2.1 | Proportion of general practice encounters for asthma, by state and territory, children aged 0 to 18 years, Australia, April 2001 to March 2004 |
| Table A2.2 | 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, 1999–2004 |
| Table A2.3 | Hospital separations for asthma per 100 children with asthma, by age group and sex, children aged 0 to 18 years, Australia, 2002–03 |
| Table A2.4 | Hospital separations for asthma per 100,000 population, by age group, state and territory, children aged 0 to 18 years, Australia, 2002–03 |
| Table A2.5 | Prevalence of ever having doctor-diagnosed asthma, by age group and sex, all ages, Australia, 2001 |
| Table A2.6 | Current prevalence of probable asthma, by age group and sex, all ages, Australia, 2001 |
| Table A2.7 | Hospital separations for asthma, by age group and sex, Australia, 1993–2003 |
| Table A2.8 | Hospital patient days for asthma per 100,000 population, by age group, Australia, 1993–2003 |
| Table A2.9 | Hospital patient days for asthma per 100,000 population, by age group and Indigenous status, Australia, 2002–03 |
| Table A2.10 | General practice encounters for asthma, by age group, Australia, April 1998 to March 2004 |
| Table A2.11 | Deaths due to asthma, by sex, people aged 5 to 34 years, Australia, 1979–2003 |
| Table A2.12 | Deaths due to asthma, by sex, all ages, Australia, 1979–2003 |
| Table A2.13 | Asthma expenditure per capita and asthma expenditure as a proportion of total health expenditure, by age group and sex, Australia, 2000–01 |
| Table A2.14 | Expenditure per capita for hospital care, out-of-hospital medical care and pharmaceuticals for asthma, by age group and sex, Australia, 2000–01 |