Systematic review of existing evidence and primary care guidelines on the management of otitis media in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations
By: authors: Sophia Couzos, Sue Metcalf, Richard B. Murray.
Contributors: Murray, Richard B.; Metcalf, Sue.; National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organization.; Australia. Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health.
Publisher: Indigenous and Public Health Media Unit, Commonwealth Dept. of Health and Aged Care
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Canberra
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
Subjects: Otitis media in children -- Australia.; Children, Australian Aboriginal -- Health and hygiene.; Children, Torres Strait Islander -- Health and hygiene.
Description: "The systematic review allows us to view the burden of ear disease in Aboriginal children through an international perspective. Viewed this way, the level of ear disease as reported in many Aboriginal community studies is significant and extreme. Australia has a massive public health problem when we consider the large numbers of Aborig (chronic suppurative otitis media). This is the way the World Health Organisation describes the burden of sufferingwhen greater than 4 percent of the population have runny ears. What we see in Aboriginal communities are, large numbers of children with runny ears similar to the number seen in many developing countries."--Foreword.
Notes: Commonwealth of Australia 2001.
Includes bibliographic references.
Publications approval no.: 2877.
"March 2001."
"National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation ... for the Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strai Islander Health, commomwealth Department of Health and Aged Care."
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