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Pennsylvania Asthma Burden Report 2009 - Gives you a detailed report on the state of Asthma Pennsylvania.
Here you will find information on:
Pennsylvania’s Asthma Surveillance System
Asthma Prevalence in Pennsylvania
Asthma Related Hospitalization (Morbidity) in Pennsylvania
Asthma Related Deaths (Mortality) in Pennsylvania
Asthma Disparities in Pennsylvania
PENNSYLVANIA ASTHMA SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM
The Pennsylvania Asthma Surveillance System assesses the burden of asthma by systematically collecting asthma-related data from a number of data sources and analyzing that data to measure:
- The Prevalence of Asthma
- Indicators of Asthma Management and Control
- Hospitalizations Related to Asthma (Morbidity)
- Asthma-Related Deaths (Mortality)
Main Asthma Data Sources of Pennsylvania Asthma Surveillance System
- Pennsylvania Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) measures asthma prevalence (both lifetime and current) by an annual sample telephone survey of Pennsylvania adults. BRFFS is implemented by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and is conducted in all 50 states, 3 territories and the District of Columbia.
- Pennsylvania School Health Statistics measures school child asthma prevalence by voluntary reporting of physician diagnosed asthma cases from all 501 public school districts and some private and charter schools in Pennsylvania .
- Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4) measures adult and pediatric asthma morbidity from annual reporting by Pennsylvania hospitals and surgery centers. Data from hospitalizations, procedures and charges per ICD codes is reported by gender, age, race/ethnicity, payer, county and hospital.
- Pennsylvania Vital Statistics measures asthma mortality (deaths) by gender, age and county.
Adult Lifetime Asthma Prevalence (18 and older):
12.3% of Pennsylvania adults (approximately 1.17 million) indicate that they have been told at some point in their lives that they have asthma. (Source: 2005 BRFSS)
Adult Current Asthma Prevalence (18 and older):
8.1% of Pennsylvania adults (approximately 771,000) indicate that they currently have asthma. (Source: 2005 BRFSS)
Child Lifetime Asthma Prevalence (under age 18):
14% of Pennsylvania children (approximately 403,000) indicate that they have been told at some point in their lives that they have asthma. (Source: 2005 BRFSS)
Child Current Asthma Prevalence (under age 18):
10.1% of Pennsylvania children (approximately 291,000) indicate that they currently have asthma. (Source: 2005 BRFSS)
School Children Asthma Prevalence (ages 5-18):
9.8% total students enrolled in Pennsylvania schools (201,088 out of an average daily enrollment of 2,043,096) report having physician diagnosed asthma. (Source: PA School Health Statistics 2003/04)
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Asthma Hospitalizations in Pennsylvania (Morbidity)
In 2003:
- 17 of every 10,000 Pennsylvanians were hospitalized due to asthma (age-adjusted rate).
- Approximately 21,000 Pennsylvanians were hospitalized due to asthma.
- Approximately $368,000,000 was charged in Pennsylvania for inpatient hospitalizations due to asthma (not including physician charges).
- Average length of stay for each asthma hospitalization was just over 3 days.
- $15,139 was the average charge for each asthma hospitalization (not including physician charges).
(Source: 2003 PHC4)
- 1.1% of deaths in Pennsylvania in 2004 were attributable to asthma, a treatable disease.
- 139 Pennsylvania adults died from asthma in 2004.
- 9 Pennsylvania children died from asthma in 2004.
(Source: Pennsylvania Vital Statistics)
Asthma Related Disparities
Mortality rates in Pennsylvania indicate potential asthma related disparities associated with race/ethnicity, gender and age:
- In 2004, the Pennsylvania age-adjusted asthma mortality rate was:
- 9 per million for White/Caucasians
- 28 per million for Black/African Americans
- The three year average (2002-2004) age-adjusted death rates in Pennsylvania for females (of any race/ethnicity) were higher overall than for males (females: 13 per million; males: 10 per million); for some age groups, death rates for females were about two times higher than for males.
- As age increases, mortality rates appear to increase in Pennsylvania . The three year average (2002-2004) age-adjusted death rates show:
- Ages 65 years and older: 41.8 deaths per million
- Ages 35-64: 12.9 deaths per million
- Ages 15-34: 4.3 deaths per million
- Ages 0-14: 2.8 deaths per million
- Death rates for those 65 and older were about three times greater than those aged 35-64 and about nine times the rate of those aged 15-34 and about fourteen times the rate of those aged 0-14.
(Source: Pennsylvania Vital Statistics)
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