Asthma Death
Asthma Burden for Children Covered by Medicaid
Cost of Asthma
Healthy People 2010
Methods
Michigan Fact Sheets and Reports

Asthma Statistics by County

• It is recommended that persons with asthma see a doctor or nurse at least twice a year for routine asthma care. [1] In Michigan, only 33.6% of adults with asthma and 45.2% of children with asthma meet this recommendation. [2]
  
  
• It is recommended that all persons with asthma have a written asthma action plan. [1] In Michigan, only 28.4% of adults with asthma and 43.9% of children with asthma have ever been given an asthma action plan. [2]
  
  
• Only 7.8% of adults with asthma and 7.1% of children with asthma in Michigan have ever taken an asthma management course. [2]
  
  
• 42.2% of adults with asthma and 48.9% of children with asthma in Michigan have been advised sometime in their life to modify their home, school, or work environment to improve their asthma.
  
  
• About 87.5% of people ages 5 to 56 years, with persistent asthma, covered by Medicaid health plans have been given the appropriate asthma medicine – a long-term controller medicine. [3]
  
  

• In schools…
  
  • 86% of schools allow children to carry and self-administer a prescribed, quick-relief inhaler. [4]
    
    
  • Only 42% of schools provide an asthma action plan for students with asthma. [4]
    
    

1. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma: Expert Panel Report 3. National Institutes of Health, Publication Number 09-5846. October 2007.
2. Michigan Asthma Call-Back Survey, 2005.
3. Michigan Medicaid HEDIS 2008 Statewide Aggregate Report.
4. School Health Education Profile Survey, 2006.