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Reports and other publications - health

2008

Access Economics, Coates H, Del Mar C, Marks M, Skull S (2008)
The cost burden of otitis media in Australia.
Canberra: Access Economics Pty Ltd
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View website: Access Economics

Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2008)
Health status. In: The health and welfare of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
Canberra: Australian Bureau of Statistics and Australian Institute of Health and Welfare:99-136
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View report section (PDF - 654KB)
View website: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2008) Technical paper on operational definitions and data issues for key national indicators of children’s health, development and wellbeing: preliminary report. (AIHW Catalogue no. WP 59)
Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
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View website: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

2007

Couzos S, Metcalf S, Murray R (2007)
Ear health
In: Couzos S, Murray R, eds.
Aboriginal primary health care: an evidence-based approach. 3rd ed.
South Melbourne: Oxford University Press:265-307
View details: Oxford University Press

Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision (2007)
Overcoming Indigenous disadvantage: key indicators 2007: report.
Canberra: Productivity Commission
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View website: Productivity Commission
(his report has a summary of the burden of ear health and hearing problems in Aboriginal children.)

Travers E, Newbury J, Willis K, Kelly J, Warrior E, et al. (2007)
Post project evaluation otitis media clinical support systems project.
Adelaide: Spencer Gulf Rural Health School
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View website: Spencer Gulf Rural Health School

2006

Access Economics (2006)
Listen hear: the economic impact and cost of hearing loss in Australia.
Melbourne: CRC Hear and the Victorian Deaf Society
View report (PDF - 3.9MB - large file warning!)

Adams K (2006)
Koori kids' ears and health.
Melbourne: Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit, University of Melbourne
View report (PDF - 2.9 MB - large file warning!)

Australian Bureau of Statistics (2006)
National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey: Australia, 2004-05.
Canberra: Australian Bureau of Statistics
View abstract: HealthBulletin
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Australian Health Ministers' Advisory Council (2006)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health performance framework report 2006.
Canberra: Australian Health Ministers' Advisory Council
View report (PDF - 1.81MB - large file warning!) (Section 1.12 reports on children's hearing loss)
View website: Office of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (OATSIH)

Ministerial Council for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs (2006)
Bringing them home: a report on the economic and social characteristics of those impacted on by past policies of forcible removal of children.
Canberra: Ministerial Council for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
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View website: Ministerial Council for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

Public Health Division (2006)
The health of the people of New South Wales - Report of the Chief Health Officer.
Sydney: NSW Department of Health.
Available at: http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/public-health/chorep/toc/list_atsipagelist.htm. Accessed (10/01/07).
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples otitis media by rurality
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Trewin D (2006)
National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey: Australia, 2004-05.
Canberra: Australian Bureau of Statistics
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2005

Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2005)
Health status. Health and welfare of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples 2005.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and the Australian Bureau of Statistics:91-132
View report (PDF - 862KB)

2004

Zubrick SR, Lawrence DM, Silburn SR, Blair E, Milroy H, et al. (2004)
The health of Aboriginal children and young people. (The Western Australian Aboriginal Child Health Survey, v. 1)
Perth: Telethon Institute for Child Health Research
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2003

Burrow S, Thomson N (2003)
Ear disease and hearing loss. In: Thomson N, ed. The health of Indigenous Australians.
South Melbourne: Oxford University Press:247-272
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Couzos S, Metcalf S, Murray R (2003)
Ear health. In: Couzos S, Murray R, eds. Aboriginal primary health care. 2nd ed.
South Melbourne: Oxford University Press:193-250
View HealthInfoNet abstract

2002

Office of Hearing Services and the Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (2002)
Report on Commonwealth funded hearing services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples: strategies for future action.
Canberra: Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing
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2001

Couzos S, Metcalf S, Murray RB (2001)
Systematic review of existing evidence and primary care guidelines on the management of otitis media in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations.
Canberra: Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care
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Menzies School of Health Research (2001)
Recommendations for clinical care guidelines on the management of otitis media in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations.
Canberra: Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care
View download information (PDF - 316KB)
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National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (2001)
The management of middle ear infection in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations: plain language summary of the systematic review on the management of otitis media (middle ear infection) in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations.
Canberra: Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care
View guidelines (PDF - 363KB)
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