According to the Global Burden of Disease study 2021, a systematic review and meta-analysis including data from 389 sources for asthma reported that in 2021 there was: an estimated 260 million people with asthma worldwide forecast to reach 275 million people having asthma in 2050 age standardised prevalence: 3340 per 100,000 in 2021, a 40%…
Ecological study using data from the Census 2021 (self-reported asthma prevalence in 4,6 million aged 0-14) for spatial clustering using statistical area level 2 (SA2, a ‘suburb’ within cities and catchments of rural areas, population around 3000 to 25000) and statistical modelling. The study reported that: (ref 1) – 6.27% overall (average) childhood asthma prevalence…
The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey for the financial year 2022-2023 reported: • 16.6% has asthma, up from 15.7% in 2018-2019 (note that the difference between 2018-2019 and 2022-2023 was not statistically significant) • Asthma was the second most prevalent selected chronic condition after mental and behavioural conditions • By remoteness: 18.2%…