Portugal Severe Asthma Index

Portugal’s score in Policy Context is close to the average. This is a result of Portugal having a relatively strong asthma strategy as well as having severe asthma guidelines, while weak tobacco control laws bring Portugal’s score down. Portugal is amongst the lowest scoring in terms of Access and Care Coverage, attributable to limited access to some treatments, especially biologics, FeNO-based diagnostics and digital therapeutics, though high levels of access to inflammatory phenotyping-based diagnostics and specialist care, as well as unmet needs below the average, bring Portugal’s score up. Portugal scores within the bottom third of countries in the Disease Burden category, with one of the highest estimated societal costs of asthma and percentage of DALYs attributable to asthma. However, Portugal displays a rate of deaths associated with asthma that is below the average.