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Hearing health outreach services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in the Northern Territory: July 2012 to December 2020
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2021) Hearing health outreach services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in the Northern Territory: July 2012 to December 2020, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 28 April 2024. doi:10.25816/rsgy-f661
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2021). Hearing health outreach services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in the Northern Territory: July 2012 to December 2020. Canberra: AIHW. doi:10.25816/rsgy-f661
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Hearing health outreach services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in the Northern Territory: July 2012 to December 2020. AIHW, 2021. doi:10.25816/rsgy-f661
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Hearing health outreach services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in the Northern Territory: July 2012 to December 2020. Canberra: AIHW; 2021. doi:10.25816/rsgy-f661
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2021, Hearing health outreach services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in the Northern Territory: July 2012 to December 2020, AIHW, Canberra. doi:10.25816/rsgy-f661
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This report presents information on hearing health outreach services provided to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people in the Northern Territory. It shows that in 2020 there were: 2,010 audiology services; 701 ear, nose and throat teleotology services; and 1,004 Clinical Nurse Specialist visits. Among children and young people who received at least 2 services between 2012 and 2020, 61% had improved hearing loss and 71% had improved hearing impairment.
71% of Indigenous children who had hearing impairment at the first NTRAI service showed improvement at the last service
43% of Indigenous children who received outreach audiology services in 2020 had hearing loss – down from 55% in 2012
In 2020, among Indigenous children in the NTRAI program who had at least 1 ear condition,1 in 2 experienced hearing loss
In 2020, 58% of Indigenous children who received NTRAI services had an ear condition diagnosed – down from 66% in 2012
Hearing health outreach services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in the Northern Territory: July 2012 to December 2020