Asthma Surveillance Data

At a glance

Asthma surveillance data includes collection and analyses of asthma data at both the national and the state level. National data is available on asthma morbidity, emergency department visits, hospitalizations due to asthma, and asthma mortality.

Graphic bar graph of 2022 data

Overview

Asthma surveillance data includes collection and analyses of asthma data at both the national and the state level. National data is available on asthma morbidity, emergency department visits, hospitalizations due to asthma, and asthma mortality.

Asthma surveillance data includes collection of asthma data at both the national and the state level. National data is available on asthma prevalence, activity limitation, days of work or school lost, rescue and control medication use, asthma self-management education, physician visits, emergency department visits, hospitalizations due to asthma, and deaths due to asthma from National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) surveys and the Vital Statistics System. Asthma surveillance data at the state level include adult and child asthma prevalence from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) and in-depth state and local asthma data through implementation of the BRFSS Asthma Call-back Survey (ACBS).

Data

Resources

  • Grantee Profiles - Profiles describing asthma prevalence, healthcare utilization, asthma self-management education, and mortality for National Asthma Control Program funded grantees.
  • Asthma Prevalence in the U.S.: Slide set - Downloadable slide set graphically summarizing asthma prevalence in the United States