Asthma Management
Internet Links for Asthma Management
There is a wealth of information about asthma management programs on the Internet. The federal government's National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute is an excellent Web site that provides gateways to specific asthma management information. From this link you will also find information on COPD.
Another site, by the Department of Health and Human Services, highlights the Action Against Asthma program.
A comprehensive inventory of current federal asthma efforts can be linked
to by first going to the National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute's Web page
at:
www.nhlbi.nih.gov/resources/docs/asth01rpt.htm
The United States Environmental Protection Agency's Web site contains a specific section that focuses on childhood asthma issues. Moreover, near the bottom of the page is an extensive list of other asthma related web pages.
Healthy People 2010 Asthma Objectives
- Reduce asthma deaths in children under age 5 years from 1.7 per million to 1.0 per million in 2010.
- Reduce asthma deaths in children aged 5 to 14 years from 3.2 per million to 1.0 per million in 2010.
- Reduce asthma deaths in adolescents and adults aged 15 to 34 years from 5.9 per million to 3.0 per million in 2010.
- Reduce asthma deaths in adults aged 35 to 64 years from 17 per million to 9 per million in 2010.
- Reduce asthma deaths in adults aged 65 years and older from 87.5 per million to 60.0 per million in 2010.
- Reduce hospitalizations for asthma in children under age 5 years from 60.9 per 10,000 to 25 per 10,000 in 2010.
- Reduce hospitalizations for asthma in children and adults aged 5 to 64 years from 13.8 per 10,000 to 8 per 10,000 in 2010.
- Reduce hospital emergency department visits for asthma in children under age 5 years from 150 per 10,000 to 80 per 10,000 in 2010.
- Reduce hospital emergency department visits for asthma in children and adults aged 5 to 64 years from 71.1 per 10,000 to 50 per 10,000 in 2010.
- Reduce hospital emergency department visits for asthma in adults aged 65 years and older from 29.5 per 10,000 to 15 per 10,000 in 2010.
- Reduce activity limitations among people with asthma from 19.5 percent to 10 percent in 2010.
- Reduce the number of school or work days missed by people with asthma due to asthma.
- Increase the proportion of people with asthma who receive formal patient education, including information about community and self-help resources, as an essential part of the management of their condition from 6.4 percent to 30 percent in 2010.
- Increase the proportion of people with asthma who receive appropriate asthma care according to the NAEPP Guidelines.
- Establish in at least 15 states a surveillance system for tracking asthma death, illness, disability, impact of occupational and environmental factors on asthma, access to medical care and asthma management.
