Maine Asthma Reports and Data

How does Asthma impact Maine?

• One in nine Mainers currently has asthma, that's more than 140,000 people
• Poorly controlled asthma contributes to roughly 5,300 emergency department visits per year
• Poorly controlled asthma leads to approximately 425 hospitalizations per year
• Poorly controlled asthma leads to about 13 deaths per year.

Sources for more Maine and US asthma data

• Maine Environmental Public Health Data Portal
• US CDC Asthma Data, Statistics, and Surveillance

Reports on Asthma Program activities and surveillance

• Maine CDC Asthma Prevention Communications Plan 2020-2025 (PDF)
• Maine Home Asthma Education Program: Evaluation Results 2016-2017 (PDF)
• Maine Asthma Non-Physician Training Evaluation Report 2019 (PDF)
• 2006-2010 Burden of Asthma In Maine (PDF)
  This report contains data on: Asthma prevalence, management, and quality of life as well as asthma health care utilization, asthma deaths, and the economic impacts of asthma.