Monitoring Asthma

Illustrating the importance of asthma monitoring practices this book covers how to assess disease levels in specific population groups; identifies social geographical and environmental factors that may influence the development of asthma; and discusses the design of cost-effective prevention and management strategies. The book reviews monitoring devices and their interpretation using established and innovative statistical techniques methods of self-monitoring and monitoring using the Internet monitoring strategies for the investigation of asthma triggers and important findings gleaned from the post-marketing surveillance of asthma drugs and the monitoring of asthma mortality.