Asthma's Impact on Society: The Social and Economic Burden (Lung Biology in Health and Disease, V. 138) (Lung Biology in Health and Disease, V. 138)

One of the first comprehensive studies of the social and economic consequences of this chronic pulmonary illness, Asthma's Impact on Society assesses how communities, families, and individuals confront asthma and try to minimize its deleterious effects. Written by over 25 highly esteemed experts, Asthma's Impact on Society defines the consequences of asthma in a community context, such as allocation of resources determines how insights gained from the social sciences can improve clinical care of asthmatics reviews outcomes, aside from physiological measures, that should be included in assessment of the condition and its treatments calculates the economic burden asthma may contribute to individuals, the health care system, and society in general presents new methods of measuring the impact of asthma on adult and pediatric patients examines the financial burden on business due to absenteeism, hospitalization, and health insurance coverage explains the basic principles of pharmacoeconomics as applied to asthma and more! Representing a multidisciplinary synthesis of the latest research in the field, Asthma's Impact on Society is an indispensable reference for pulmonologists, clinical immunologists and allergists, chest physicians, internists, pediatricians, health policy analysts, health economists, public health officials, pharmacoeconomists, and upper-level undergraduate, graduate, and medical school students in these disciplines. The book contains black-and-white illustrations. INTRODUCTION......Page 12 PREFACE......Page 14 CONTRIBUTORS......Page 16 CONTENTS......Page 19 Introduction to Part One The Social Impact of Asthma......Page 25 Quality of Life, Health Status, and the Social Impact of Asthma An Overview......Page 30 Characterizing the Social Impact of Asthma in Children......Page 44 Characterizing the Occupational Impact of Asthma......Page 75 Measuring Health-Related Quality of Life for Persons with Asthma An Overview......Page 96 Current Methods in Measuring Health-Related Quality of Life in Children with Asthma......Page 118 Current Methods for Measuring Health-Related Quality of Life in Adults with Asthma......Page 146 Psychosocial Factors in Chronic Asthma......Page 199 The Impact of Sociodemographic Factors on Asthma......Page 236 Introduction to Part Two The Economic Impact of Asthma......Page 262 Measuring the Economic Burden in Asthma......Page 265 Economic Evaluation of Asthma Treatments......Page 282 Cost and Outcome Implications for Prevention......Page 304 Development of a Pharmacoeconomic Policy Model for Asthma......Page 325 Health State Preference Estimation in Asthma......Page 343 AUTHOR INDEX......Page 363 SUBJECT INDEX......Page 391 One of the first comprehensive studies of the social and economic consequences of this chronic pulmonary illness, Asthma's Impact on Society assesses how communities, families, and individuals confront asthma and try to minimize its deleterious effects. Written by over 25 international experts, Asthma's Impact on Society defines the consequences of asthma in a community context...determines how insights gained from the social sciences can improve clinical care of asthmatics...reviews outcomes, aside from physiological measures, that should be included in assessment of the condition and its treatments...calculates the economic burden asthma may contribute to individuals, the health care system, and society in general...presents new methods of measuring the impact of asthma on adult and pediatric patients...and more. "One of the first comprehensive studies of the social and economic consequences of this chronic pulmonary illness, Asthma's Impact on Society assesses how communities, families, and individuals confront asthma and try to minimize its deleterious effects."--Jacket This text presents a comprehensive collection of studies of the social and economic consequences of chronic pulmonary illness. The papers assess how communities, families and individuals confront asthma and try to minimize its deleterious effects Although much of the medical literature views asthma from the perspective of lung function and cellular immune function, this view is narrow in contrast to the comprehensive impact of the disease on an individual's life as a whole.