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Asthma Publications

Indiana Asthma Burden Report (2011)

The 2010 Indiana Asthma Burden Report provides information about the prevalence of asthma among adults and children, hospitalizations, emergency department visits, mortality and the economic cost associated with asthma. The report also describes risk and protective factors, and interventions implemented by the Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH). The data presented in this report helps identify populations and geographical areas where the burden of asthma is particularly high.

Facts about Asthma in Indiana:

  • Asthma is the third leading cause of hospitalization among children under the age of 17 years. In 2009, there were 9,081 hospitalizations with a principal diagnosis of asthma in Indiana, for an age-adjusted hospitalization rate of 13.94 per 10,000 Indiana residents.

  • In 2009, an estimated 435,000 (9.1%) Indiana adults and 150,000 (9.9%) children reported currently having asthma. More than 13 percent of adults and nearly 15 percent of children reported having been diagnosed with asthma at some point during their lifetime.

  • Nearly 24 percent of high school students reported having asthma at some time in their lives and 12.2% reported having current asthma in 2009.

  • There were more than 31,000 emergency department visits related to asthma in 2009 – an increase of nearly 3,000 (9.8%) from 2008.

  • More than 9,000 hospitalizations were recorded due to asthma in 2009 – an increase of 6.6% from 2008. In 2007, 68 Indiana resident deaths listed asthma as the underlying cause; 46 were women and 22 were men.

  • In Indiana, the estimated economic cost attributed to asthma-related hospitalization was $122 million in 2009. The estimated cost of asthma-related emergency department visits was $46 million.

To read the entire Asthma Burden Report, written by the Indiana State Department of Health and the Indiana Joint Asthma Coalition, download it from the Indiana Asthma Burden Report.

 

Additional Publications:

Reducing the Burden of Asthma (2010) - The Indiana State Asthma Plan focuses on both health and environmental solutions to reduce the burden of asthma in Indiana. This five-year plan establishes goals, objectives, and strategies that span health care set-tings, schools and early care settings, workplaces, indoor and outdoor environments, homes and buildings in which persons with asthma live or visit.

 

Asthma in Indiana (2010) - A handy fact sheet that included up-to-date data on Asthma in the state.

 

Asthma Fast Facts (2010) -- Information from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) on Asthma in the United States.  More information about these facts and asthma in the U.S. can be found on the CDC's website at http://www.cdc.gov/asthma.

 

A Strategic Plan for Addressing Asthma in Indiana (2004) - InJAC, in conjunction with the Indiana State Department of Health and the Indiana Department of Environmental Management, formulated the state's first plan to address asthma in Indiana.  This plan, created in 2004, was updated and replaced by the 2009-2014 Reducing the Burden of Asthma plan.