Table of contents
Summary
- Introduction
- Why is ear and hearing health important?
- What is ear and hearing health
- Impact of poor ear and hearing health
- Ear and hearing health in the Northern Territory
- Australian Government-funded Hearing Health Program in the Northern Territory
- How do children and young people move through the NT hearing health system?
- About this report
- About the data in this report
- Why is ear and hearing health important?
- Service delivery
- Health education, promotion and prevention
- Outreach audiology
- ENT teleotology services.
- Clinical Nurse Specialist services
- Ear conditions and hearing health status
- Ear conditions
- Age and sex differences
- Changes among children and young people who received 2 or more services between 2012 and 2019
- Ear conditions among CNS service recipients
- Hearing status
- Hearing loss
- Variation by age and sex
- Hearing loss among children and young people with ear conditions
- Trends
- Hearing impairment
- Variation by age and sex
- Trends
- Changes over time in hearing loss and impairment
- Hearing loss
- Ear conditions
- Demand for ear and hearing health services and other follow-up services
- Follow-up services required after audiologist visits
- Follow-up services required after ENT teleotology services
- Waiting list for audiology services and ENT teleotology services
- Regional analysis
- Hearing Loss
- Hearing Impairment
- Ear Conditions
- Progress against benchmarks
- Service delivery
- Health outcomes—hearing impairment
- Health outcomes—middle ear conditions
Appendix A: About the Hearing Health Program data collections
- Data collection, management and reporting
- Appendix B: Data quality statement.
- Outreach audiology data collection summary
- ENT teleotology data collection summary
- CNS data collection summary
- Child Health Check Initiative (CHCI) data collections summary
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Symbols
Glossary
References
List of figures
List of tables
List of boxes
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