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

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Release Date: 28 Nov 2017
Topic: Indigenous Australians

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2017) Northern Territory Outreach Hearing Health Program: July 2012 to December 2016, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 01 February 2023.

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2017). Northern Territory Outreach Hearing Health Program: July 2012 to December 2016. Canberra: AIHW.

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Northern Territory Outreach Hearing Health Program: July 2012 to December 2016. Canberra: AIHW; 2017.

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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 2016, 2,452 audiology, 1,020 ear, nose and throat teleotology and 1,156 Clinical Nurse Specialist services were provided. Of those children and young people who received treatment 51% had improved hearing loss and 62% had improved hearing impairment.

  • ISBN: 978-1-76054-242-9
  • Cat. no: IHW 189
  • Pages: 60
Findings from this report:
  • 63% of Indigenous children were diagnosed with at least 1 ear condition

  • 45% of Indigenous children had some type of hearing loss

  • 28% of children had some type of hearing impairment

  • 51% of children who had hearing loss 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 2021

    Publication | 31 Aug 2022

  • Hearing health outreach services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in the Northern Territory: July 2012 to December 2020

    Publication | 01 Sep 2021

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    Publication | 20 Aug 2020

  • 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

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

28 Nov 2017

Previous releases

  • 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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