PHOTO: Hearing health help for Indigenous people.
A ground-breaking partnership between the Coonamble Aboriginal Health Service (CAHS) and Hearing Australia intends to close the gap on hearing loss statistics.
In the 2018-19 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Survey, it was revealed that hearing loss is more of a burden on indigenous Australians than non-indigenous Australians.
The rate of hearing problems in Indigenous children aged zero to six was over twice the rate for non-indigenous children at 6.9% compared to 3%.
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