Details:

Personal Author:
Moorman, Jeanne E.
Corporate Authors:
National Center for Environmental Health (U.S.). Division of Environmental Hazards and Health Effects. ; National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.). Office of Analysis and Epidemiology.
National Center for Environmental Health (U.S.). Division of Environmental Hazards and Health Effects. ; National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.). Office of Analysis and Epidemiology. Less -
Description:
"Asthma, a chronic respiratory disease with episodic symptoms, increased in prevalence during 1980--1996 in the United States. Asthma has been the focus of numerous provider interventions (e.g., improving adherence to asthma guidelines) and public health interventions during recent years. Although the etiology of asthma is unknown, adherence to medical treatment regimen and environmental management should reduce the occurrence of exacerbations and lessen the hardship of this disease. CDC has outlined a public health approach to asthma that includes comprehensive analyses of national surveillance data on prevalence, health-care use and mortality, and a strategy to improve the timeliness and geographic specificity of asthma surveillance data." - p. 1
Content Notes:
By Jeanne E. Moorman, Rose Anne Rudd, Carol A. Johnson, Michael King, Patrick Minor, Cathy Bailey, Marissa R. Scalia (Division of Environmental Hazards and Health Effects, National Center for Environmental Health), Lara J. Akinbami (Office of Analysis and Epidemiology, National Center for Health Statistics).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 13-14).


Subject:
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Asthma/epidemiology
Asthma/mortality
Cost Of Illness
Hospitalization
Office Visits
Population Surveillance

Series:
MMWR. CDC surveillance summaries : Morbidity and mortality weekly report. CDC surveillance summaries ; v. 56, no. SS-8
Pubmed ID:
17947969
Document Type:
Journal Issue
Genre:
Statistics
Place as Subject:
United States
Collection(s):
Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library collection
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