Information Audiovisuals

Using your inhaler

• Standard MDI (puffer)
• Standard MDI (puffer) and spacer
• Accuhaler
• Autohaler
• HandiHaler
• Turbuhaler

Information Sheets 

• Asthma Facts (Summary)

• Asthma & Allergy

• Asthma and Food Fact File  

• Asthma & Influenza - the Facts

• Exercise-induced asthma

• Get it right! How to stick to your asthma medications

• How to look after your nebuliser

• Pregnancy and asthma

• The traveller with asthma

• The Four Seasons

• World Asthma Day

Asthma Good Health Tips - Dairy Australia (220 KB PDF File)

 

Asthma Management Holiday Checklist (22 KB PDF File)

 

Good Asthma Management for Everyone (648 KB PDF File)

Information about Asthma

Australian asthma information is available in comprehensive reports released by the Australian Centre for Asthma Monitoring.

	Asthma in Australia: findings from the 2004–05 National Health Survey Information from the most recent National Health Survey conducted in 2004–05 by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. This survey provides Australia’s only nationwide source of individual experiences with asthma, including prevalence, management, quality of life and exposure to known risk factors.
	Asthma in Australia 2005 Comprehensive information on the number of people who have asthma, who receive various treatments for asthma, who have written asthma action plans, and who visit their GP, are hospitalised or die due to asthma.
	Health care expenditure and the burden of disease due to asthma in Australia The report provides a summary of two aspects of the economic impact of asthma in Australia: health care expenditure and burden of disease attributable to asthma-related disability and premature mortality.
	Measuring the impact of asthma on quality of life in the Australian population (929 KB PDF File) The report provides a comprehensive review of approaches to measuring the impact of asthma on quality of life that can be used in population-based monitoring.

Pamphlets and Brochures

The following pamphlets and brochures and information sheets are available from the National Asthma Council. 

To order copies of these publications either 
E-mail: nac@nationalasthma.org.au   
or 
phone the NAC Hotline on 1800 032 495 with orders or inquiries.

• Smoking and asthma (in association with Quit)

• NAC Corporate Brochure

Resources in Community Languages

Asthma Foundation of Victoria

A range of educational resources is available in PDF format (Acrobat Reader^® required) on the Asthma Victoria Website in Italian, Greek, Turkish, Arabic, Chinese and Vietnamese as well as English.

Multilingual Brochures and Information Sheets
(http://www.asthma.org.au/Default.aspx?tabid=92)

NSW Health

A range of educational resources is also available online at the NSW Health* Web Site in languages including Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, Italian, Khmer/Cambodian, Korean, Lao, Macedonian, Portuguese, Russian, Serb Spanish, Thai, Turkish and Vietnamese as well as English. 

PDF formats are also available (Adobe Reader^® required).

Asthma and children: a guide to coping

Asthma at work Asthma - the basic facts

Is your baby at risk of developing asthma?

Problems with asthma? What you can do at home

*NSW Health is an important part of the NSW community and a major responsibility of the NSW Government. Around 100,000 people work in or directly with NSW Health.

NSW Health provides a comprehensive range of health and health related services covering health protection, health promotion and education, health screening, diagnosis, treatment, emergency transport, acute care, rehabilitation, continuing care for chronic illness, counselling, support and palliative care.

International Resources

English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Polish versions of the European Lung Foundation website are available, including patient resources.

www.european-lung-foundation.org