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You are here: Home Reports & data Indigenous Australians Hearing health outreach services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in the Northern Territory: July 2012 to December 2019
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Hearing health outreach services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in the Northern Territory: July 2012 to December 2019

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Release Date: 20 Aug 2020
Topic: Indigenous Australians

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2020) Hearing health outreach services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in the Northern Territory: July 2012 to December 2019, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 06 July 2022.

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2020). Hearing health outreach services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in the Northern Territory: July 2012 to December 2019. Canberra: AIHW.

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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 2019. AIHW, 2020.

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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 2019. Canberra: AIHW; 2020.

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2020, Hearing health outreach services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in the Northern Territory: July 2012 to December 2019, AIHW, Canberra.

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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 2019, 2,156 audiology; 770 ear, nose and throat teleotology; and 1,119 Clinical Nurse Specialist services were provided. Among children and young people who received treatment, 61% had improved hearing loss and 71% had improved hearing impairment.

  • ISBN: 978-1-76054-710-3
  • Cat. no: IHW 228
  • Pages: 50
Findings from this report:
  • 42% of Indigenous children who received a service had hearing loss

  • 62% of Indigenous children who received a service were diagnosed with at least 1 ear disease

  • 61% of Indigenous children who had hearing loss at their first service showed improvement at their last service

  • 71% of Indigenous children who had a hearing impairment at their first service showed improvement at their last service

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Hearing health outreach services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in the Northern Territory: July 2012 to December 2019

20 Aug 2020

Previous releases

  • Hearing health outreach services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in the Northern Territory: July 2012 to December 2018

    Publication | 16 Oct 2019

  • Northern Territory Outreach Hearing Health Program: July 2012 to December 2017

    Publication | 10 Dec 2018

  • Northern Territory Outreach Hearing Health Program: July 2012 to December 2016

    Publication | 28 Nov 2017

  • Northern Territory Remote Aboriginal Investment: Ear and Hearing Health Program—July 2012 to June 2016

    Publication | 14 Mar 2017

  • Hearing health outreach services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people in the Northern Territory: 2012–13 to 2014–15

    Publication | 10 Nov 2015

  • Hearing health outreach services to Indigenous children and young people in the Northern Territory 2012–13 and 2013–14

    Publication | 26 Feb 2015

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