Kent County

• 14,944 children less than 18 years currently have asthma. [1]
  
  
• 37,142 adults 18 years and older currently have asthma. [2]
  
  
• There are about 548 hospitalizations each year in Kent County. The rate of asthma hospitalization is 9.4 hospital stays per 10,000 people. [3] This rate is significantly lower than the rate for the State of Michigan (16.0 per 10,000).
  
  
• There are about 6 deaths due to asthma in Kent County each year. [4]
  
  
• For Kent County, the total cost of asthma is $21,531,000 per year, with indirect costs of $9,268,000 and direct costs of $12,263,000. [5]

*Rates are age-adjusted to the 2000 US population. Michigan population estimates for 2003 are used in calculations.

For more information about asthma in your county, please review "Epidemiology of Asthma In the Western Michigan Counties of Kent, Montcalm, Muskegon, Newaygo, and Ottawa, 2006."

If you have a specific data request, please contact Betsy Wasilevich, asthma epidemiologist, at wasileviche@michigan.gov.

Sources:

1.  Michigan Behavioral Risk Factor Survey, 2002.

2.  Michigan Behavioral Risk Factor Survey, 2005, Preliminary.

3.  Michigan Inpatient Database, 2002-2004.

4.  Michigan Resident Death File, 1999-2004.

5.  Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America.

Last Updated 07/01/2007