This indicator estimates the number and rate of hospitalizations for asthma. These data can be used to identify trends and patterns in the occurrence of asthma hospitalizations across time and space.  Asthma hospital admissions tend to be for more severe asthma attacks and do not include asthma among individuals who do not receive medical care, who are not hospitalized, or who are treated in outpatient settings. Differences between geographic areas may be the result of differences in the underlying population or in the diagnostic or coding techniques used by the reporting hospital.

Our asthma data come from hospitalizations include: health outcome (asthma), Tennessee county of residence, and year of hospitalization.