Asthma action plans

Asthma action plan
Asthma action plans by National Asthma Council Australia

Asthma action plan
Symbicort anti-inflammatory reliever +/- maintenance action plans
Charts
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Peak flow chart
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Allergic Rhinitis Treatment Planner
A tool to help primary health care professionals develop a treatment plan for patients with asthma and allergic rhinitis

Chart
Severe Asthma Checklist
A tool to help general practitioners identify patients with severe asthma and refer them for specialist care.

Chart
Selecting & Adjusting Asthma Medication for Adults & Adolescents
The Selecting and Adjusting Medication for Adults and Adolescents chart is an essential education resource for health professionals. It is a visual reference to medications for each level of the popular Selecting and Adjusting Medication for Adults and Adolescents diagram in the Australian Asthma Handbook.
Improving Childhood Asthma Management (ICAM)

Improving Childhood Asthma Management (ICAM)
Improving Childhood Asthma Management in Inner West Melbourne (Primary Health Care)
The National Asthma Council has developed this locally tailored education package to ensure primary health care professionals are equipped with the knowledge and tools to provide high quality asthma care to children in Melbourne’s inner west.

Improving Childhood Asthma Management (ICAM)
Childhood Asthma Guide for Inner West Melbourne (Schools and Sports Clubs)
The National Asthma Council has developed this locally tailored education package to ensure asthma care providers in local education settings and sports clubs including school staff and sports club staff are equipped with the knowledge and tools to provide high quality asthma care to children and adolescents in Melbourne’s inner west.
Information papers
Information paper
Monoclonal antibody therapy for severe asthma
Four monoclonal antibody therapies (benralizumab, mepolizumab, dupilumab and omalizumab) are available in Australia for the treatment of severe asthma in patients whose asthma is uncontrolled despite optimised standard treatment.

Information paper
Work-related asthma - an update for primary health professionals
Exposure to airborne contaminants or adverse conditions at work is an important and preventable cause of asthma and asthma symptoms in adults. About 1 in 4 adults with asthma have asthma that was either caused by their work or is worsened by work conditions.

Information paper
Thunderstorm Asthma : Prepare Your Patients For Spring
A flowchart for pharmacy to help identify and advise at-risk patients.

Information paper
Inhaler Technique for People with Asthma or COPD
Latest evidence on the prevalence and impact of incorrect technique, plus checklists for using each inhaler correctly

Information paper
Intranasal Spray Technique
an overview of current evidence for optimal technique when administering intranasal sprays, which are used in the long-term management of allergic rhinitis.

Information paper
Asthma–COPD overlap
A new evidence-based resource for primary care health professionals to help diagnose and manage patients with asthma–COPD overlap.

Information paper
Asthma Adherence
aims to assist those involved in asthma care to understand more about adherence and the factors affecting it, both as a patient issue and an asthma management issue.

Information paper
Patient Centred Health Care in Primary Care
This discussion paper deals with some of the practical ways in which primary care services including general practice, allied health services and community pharmacy can incorporate principles of patient-centred care.

Information paper
Spirometer Buyers' Guide

Information paper
Spirometry Handbook for primary care

Information paper
Spirometry Quick Reference Guide

Information paper
Availability of salbutamol nebules - Important update for health professionals
Shortage anticipated from August 2023 to June 2024
Reports & Statistics

Reports & Statistic
Asthma in Australia 2004-05
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.

Reports & Statistic
Asthma in Australia 2008
Asthma remains a significant health problem in Australia, with prevalence and death rates that are high by international standards despite declines, according to this report from the Australian Centre for Asthma Monitoring.

Reports & Statistic
Asthma in Australia 2011
Asthma in Australia 2011 includes information on the number of people who have asthma and who visit their general practitioner, are hospitalised or die due to asthma

Reports & Statistic
Asthma Mortality Statistics
Asthma-related deaths in Australia have now dropped from a peak of 964 in 1989 to less than half that number today. Yet every asthma death is a tragedy, and people of all ages must continue to take asthma seriously.

Reports & Statistic
Burden of Disease Due to Asthma in Australia 2003
The report summarises the asthma-related findings of two key Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) reports — The burden of disease and injury in Australia 2003 and The burden of disease and injury in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples 2003.

Reports & Statistic
Impact of Asthma on Quality of Life 2004
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.

Reports & Statistic
Mortality from Asthma and COPD in Australia 2014

Reports & Statistic
National Asthma Strategy 1999

Reports & Statistic
National Asthma Strategy 2006-08

Reports & Statistic
Report on the Cost of Asthma 1992

Reports & Statistic
Respiratory medication use in Australia 2003-13

Reports & Statistic
Review of the Six Step Asthma Plan 1999

Reports & Statistic
Short on Air 2010

Reports & Statistic
The Hidden Cost of Asthma 2015

Reports & Statistic
Asthma Cycle of Care

Reports & Statistic
National Asthma Strategy 2018

Reports & Statistic
Current practice and new approaches in asthma

Reports & Statistic
Rethinking Written Asthma Action Plans project report
Infographics

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The Hidden Cost of Asthma

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World Asthma Day 2015

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Asthma Mortality Statistics 2014

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Asthma inhalers - do you know how to use yours?

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Asthma Mortality Statistics 2015

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Asthma Mortality Statistics 2016

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Asthma Mortality Statistics 2017

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Asthma Mortality Statistics 2018

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Asthma Mortality Statistics 2019

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Asthma mortality stats 2020

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Asthma mortality stats 2021
