Regional Disparity in Asthma Prevalence and Distribution of Asthma Education Programs in Texas

Table 3

Descriptive statistics of 11 public health regions in Texas.

	Number of adult population with asthma (2015)	Adult asthma prevalence (2015) (%)	Asthma education programs (2019)
			Number	People with asthma per program
Total public health regions (PHRs)
Mean	133,303	7.6	2.4	56,271
SD	116,313	1.96	2.67	27,446
Median	73,923	7.2	1	51,825
IQR	152,213	2.3	3	25,533
Individual public health regions (PHRs)
Region 1	73,923	10.4	1	73,923
Region 2	52,068	11.5	0	—
Region 3	366,431	7.0	8	45,804
Region 4	65,016	8.4	1	65,016
Region 5	41,594	7.2	0	-
Region 6	327,374	6.8	7	46,768
Region 7	227,442	9.8	2	113,721
Region 8	170,646	8.5	3	56,882
Region 9	37,901	6.9	0	—
Region 10	29,428	5.1	1	29,428
Region 11	74,512	5.2	4	18,628

Note. Asthma data are population estimate after weighting for the population; SD = standard deviation; IQR = interquartile range.