Figure 2.

A matrix of perspectives and health interventions, which outlines four key opportunities for health interventions at different stages of disease prevention and management.

Perspectives	Interventions
	Population-based prevention	Risk-based prevention	Diagnosis	Management
	Population-based intervention or detection efforts to avoid or delay asthma onset	Intervention efforts targeted to individuals with susceptibilities to asthma to avoid or delay asthma onset	Identification of asthma subtypes and identification of individuals with asthma, including distinguishing asthma from other respiratory diseases	Interventions to reduce disease burden of asthma, including pharmaceutical and other therapeutics, environmental modification, and behavioral mechanisms
Patient and family
Community
Researcher
Healthcare professional
Commercial developer
Public health practitioner