JUST RELEASED
California Asthma Facts: Asthma Emergency Department (ED) Visits, Results from 2005-2007 . This new online fact sheet by California Breathing that describes rates of asthma ED visits by age, sex, race/ethnicity, month of admission, and source of payment. This fact sheet is an update to the ED data presented in the 2007 surveillance report, “The Burden of Asthma in California.”
STRATEGIC PLAN FOR ASTHMA IN CALIFORNIA, 2008-2012
The Strategic Plan for Asthma in California, 2008–2012, sustains and builds upon substantial achievements already made in addressing asthma under the previous 2002 Plan. Recommendations in the Plan are intended to mobilize individuals, organizations, communities, and state and local agencies to collectively take clearly defined, comprehensive, and coordinated action on asthma over the next five years to respond effectively to asthma as a public health priority.
RECENT SURVEILLANCE RELEASES
California Asthma Quick Facts: Asthma Mortality Varies in Asian and Hispanic Race/Ethnic Groups,
a new online fact sheet by California Breathing, describes asthma death
rates among Hispanic and Asian subgroups and how the differences in
these rates are masked when they are combined into single groups.
The 2008 County Asthma Profiles -the profiles contain county specific data for a variety of asthma indicators. Additionally, we have released technical notes and county comparison sheets to accompany the profiles.
The Burden of Asthma in California: A Surveillance Report (June 2007) — a comprehensive data source book containing all available asthma data for the state, including: asthma prevalence; symptoms and management; risk factors associated with asthma; work-related asthma; hospital and emergency department uses for asthma; and mortality. In addition, it highlights disparities in asthma as well as how the state is doing in comparison to the Healthy People 2010 goals.
Accompanying the report is a PowerPoint presentation that our partners can use to present the findings from the Burden Report. When doing so, please reference California Breathing. [PowerPoint]
California Asthma Facts, Volume 3, Issue 1 (May 2006)—Asthma and Obesity: Results from the California Healthy Kids Survey, 2001-2003 -- examines the association between asthma prevalence and being overweight/obese in adolescents. [Fact Sheet] [Quick Facts Supplement]
CALIFORNIA ASTHMA FACTS Archive
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
- Davis A, Lipsett M, Milet M, Eatherton M, Kreutzer R. An Association between Asthma and BMI in Adolescents: Results from the California Healthy Kids Survey. Journal of Asthma. 2007;44(10):873-879.
- Davis A, Kreutzer R, Lipsett M, King G, Shaikh N. Asthma Prevalence in Hispanic and Asian American Ethnic Subgroups: Results from the California Healthy Kids Survey. Pediatrics. 2006;118(2):e363-e378.
- Asthma Deaths in Children and Young Adults in California (2004) — report that describes risk factors associated with asthma death through interviews with next-of-kin to those who died from asthma.
- Quint J, Beckett WS, Campleman SL, Sutton P, Prudhomme J, Flattery J, Harrison R, Cowan B, Kreutzer R. Primary Prevention of Occupational Asthma: Identifying and Controlling Exposures to Asthma-Causing Agents. Am J Ind Med, 51(7):477-491, 2008.
FUTURE SURVEILLANCE REPORTS
- Fact sheet of racial/ethnic disparities in asthma mortality
- Rates of asthma emergency department visits
- Findings from the BRFSS Asthma Survey (CB Data Sources)
- Work-related asthma—findings from BRFSS (CB Data Sources)
- Update to the Burden of Asthma in California data source book
- Effects of diesel exhaust on work-related asthma
- Repeat hospitalizations for asthma
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