Italy Severe Asthma Index

In Policy Context, Italy’s score is well above the average, having the highest alignment of national care guidelines with international guidelines and the existence of a severe asthma registry being undermined by a limited asthma strategy, the lack of severe asthma guidelines, and limited tobacco control policies. Italy scores within the top third of countries in Access and Care Coverage with a higher-than-average score. This is due to an above-average level of access to treatments (including biologics), access to inflammatory phenotyping-based diagnostics, and high levels of access to telemedicine and remote care. Italy ranks highest in terms of Environmental Factors and is among the top scorers in terms of Disease Burden, with positive, though improvable, performance in the estimated societal cost of severe asthma, asthma DALYs, percentage of deaths attributable to asthma and adult obesity rate.