CLOSING 31 May:Training $$ subsidy for ear health training and ear health...
PLEASE ENROL WITHIN 24 HOURS TO CLAIM TRAINING SUBSIDY SO YOU DO NOT MISS OUT Application close 1.00 pm Thursday 1 May There are 170 training places for existing ear health workers and 16 Training and...
View ArticleSave the date: Ear health care training project
Save the date information in this NACCHO communique 1.Professsional development training date-22 August 2012 2.National Aboriginal Ear and Hearing Health Skill Set-Certificate course-(various dates)...
View ArticleHealthy ears promoted in Central Australia with new DVD
You can watch the DVD live online here (Listen Up FACEBOOK PAGE) A local ear health campaign offering entertainment and giveaways was one of the attractions at the Desert Harmony Festival in Tennant...
View ArticleNACCHO health alert: Ear and Hearing Peer Support and Mentoring Framework
Picture above participants Melbourne Mentoring Workshop The need for mentoring and peer support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers (AHWs) after formal training had become...
View ArticleNACCHO health conference alert: Health Workforce National Conference to...
National initiatives to close the gap in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander life expectancy and to build the supporting health workforce will be discussed and debated at Health Workforce...
View ArticleNACCHO Training News: Ear and Hearing Skill Set for Aboriginal and/or Torres...
NACCHO is pleased to announce that Ear and Hearing Skill Set training will be delivered in a number of jurisdictions nationally starting in April 2015. The Ear and Hearing Training for the...
View ArticleNACCHO Aboriginal Health News: Overview of Australian Indigenous health...
The Overview of Australian Indigenous health status 2014 (Overview) has been released providing a comprehensive summary of the most recent indicators of the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait...
View ArticleNACCHO Aboriginal Health News: Indigenous ear surgeon Dr Kelvin Kong closing...
Dr Kelvin Kong, one of three Indigenous surgeons, is excited about the RACS’s decision to sign off on a strategic plan to develop the Indigenous health workforce. It has taken six years of...
View ArticleNACCHO Training Opportunity News : For Ear and Hearing Training AHW Health...
Ear and Hearing Training for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers NACCHO Ear and Hearing Project The Ear and Hearing Training for the Aboriginal Health Worker Workforce Project is...
View ArticleStrong Hearing, Strong Start Raising awareness the key to improving...
“Ear disease is a chronic process that occurs over the most important period of a child’s upbringing that is during their learning, growth and development. If we don’t get onto it and we don’t be...
View ArticleNACCHO Hearing Awareness Week : Is Hearing loss the missing piece of the...
“At school, hearing difficulties increase the likelihood of delayed speech, problems learning to read, and isolation from other children. All this contributes to Aboriginal children leaving education...
View ArticleNACCHO #CTG10 Reports : NT intervention ‘fails on human rights’ and closing...
“There have been some improvements to Indigenous child mortality with this target on track to be met by 2018. However, despite narrowing the gap in life expectancy, the rate of improvement is far too...
View ArticleNACCHO #CTG10 Press Release:Ongoing commitment required to close the gap
“It’s good that there have been some positive gains already made in areas like child and maternal health. “We are still a long way from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people achieving the same...
View ArticleNACCHO Aboriginal Ear Health #closethegap : Action to tackle Indigenous ear...
“Australia has one of the highest recorded rates of middle ear disease in the world for its First Nations peoples,” “If left untreated, the hearing loss associated with middle ear disease impacts on...
View ArticleNACCHO #Aboriginal Health Special Feature : 20 Indigenous health research papers
” This study aimed to examine the accuracy of patient self-reported screening status for diabetes, high cholesterol and cervical cancer among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients when...
View ArticleNACCHO Aboriginal #HealthElection16 News Alert : New Report confirms...
The Overview of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health status 2015 provides a comprehensive summary of the most recent indicators of the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people....
View ArticleOpportunity to support a special edition #HealthElection16 NACCHO Aboriginal...
Opportunity to send your Aboriginal Health issue message to Canberra for #HealthElection16 Advertising and editorial is invited from All political parties NACCHO 150 Members and Affiliates...
View ArticleNACCHO #HealthElection16 : Ongoing commitment required to close the gap says...
PHOTO ABOVE : Senator Rachel Siewert visiting the Broome Regional Aboriginal Medical Centre yesterday with Senator Richard Di Natale to announce the Greens Aboriginal Health policy. Prior to entering...
View ArticleNACCHO #HearingAwarenessWeek : Two very moving stories from the Aboriginal...
” Canberra mother Rebecca Lester, of the Wonnara Nation from the NSW Hunter Valley, has praised Canberra’s Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Services Aboriginal Hearing Program for saving her...
View ArticleNACCHO Aboriginal Health #HearingAwarenessWeek : Importance of ear health for...
“ Hearing awareness week is a good time to reflect on the impact of poor hearing. Unfortunately we get so involved in social outcomes; we are often bombarded with information and misinformation. I...
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