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Otitis Media: a chronic disease?

• Sachin Khera

  

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  27 June 2012

  Hi everyone,
  my name is sachin and I works as Tobacco Action Worker at Bega Garnbirringu Health Services, Kalgoorlie (WA). While doing research on health effects of smoking, I came across a very interesting study done in my work area. The study results showed that the risk of Otitis Media is directly proportional to exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) among children.
  
  https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2008/188/10/effect-passive-smoking-risk-otitis-media-aboriginal-and-non-aboriginal-children
  
  Cheers

  Hi everyone, my name is sachin and I works as Tobacco Action Worker at Bega Garnbirringu Health Services, Kalgoorlie (WA). While doing research on health effects of smoking, I came across a very interesting study done in my work area. The study results showed that the risk of Otitis Media is directly proportional to exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) among children. https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2008/188/10/effect-passive-smoking-risk-otitis-media-aboriginal-and-non-aboriginal-children Cheers
• Kyle Turner

  

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  9 March 2012

  Hi Chloe, please give me a call on (07)3250 8673 if you would like to have a quick chat around OM in Indigenous child populations. I'm a Wiradjuri epidemiologist with QLD Health's Deadly Ears Program, and I'd be keen to assist. Cheers, Kyle

  Hi Chloe, please give me a call on (07)3250 8673 if you would like to have a quick chat around OM in Indigenous child populations. I'm a Wiradjuri epidemiologist with QLD Health's Deadly Ears Program, and I'd be keen to assist. Cheers, Kyle
• Chloe Clift

  

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  8 March 2012

  hi im currenty studying my cert iv in education support and im doing a Indigenous unit, i have to do a oral presentation on an aboriginal health issue and i chose to do otitis media i was just wondering if anyone had any information i could use or know of any health care professionals i could get in contact with
  
  thanks :))

  hi im currenty studying my cert iv in education support and im doing a Indigenous unit, i have to do a oral presentation on an aboriginal health issue and i chose to do otitis media i was just wondering if anyone had any information i could use or know of any health care professionals i could get in contact with thanks :))
• Fred McConnel

  

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  13 January 2011

  Given the life-long effects of OM in early life, on hearing, language development, auditory perception, and behaviour, and the the flow on effects on education, employment, dysfunctional, antisocial, and 'criminal' outcomes,it is almost certainly a chronic disease of greater significance than the 'preventable chronic diseases' which present much later in life. Many of these may have their genesis in the lifestyles to which ear disease contibutes. Unfortunately (from an epidemiological point of view), ear disease doesn't turn up on the death certificate.
  
  Definitely a much under-reported problem.
  
  Regards...Fred McConnel

  Given the life-long effects of OM in early life, on hearing, language development, auditory perception, and behaviour, and the the flow on effects on education, employment, dysfunctional, antisocial, and 'criminal' outcomes,it is almost certainly a chronic disease of greater significance than the 'preventable chronic diseases' which present much later in life. Many of these may have their genesis in the lifestyles to which ear disease contibutes. Unfortunately (from an epidemiological point of view), ear disease doesn't turn up on the death certificate. Definitely a much under-reported problem. Regards...Fred McConnel
• Kyle Turner

  

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  19 December 2010

  Otitis Media: a chronic disease?
  
  That is a question receiving more and more attention. I'm of the belief that recurrent OM amongst rural/ remote Indigenous children is a chronic condition, particularly for those aged between 0 and 4 years.
  
  The long-term impacts of child OM are enormous and seriously underreported nationally.
  
  Your thoughts?
  
  Cheers, Kyle
  

  Otitis Media: a chronic disease? That is a question receiving more and more attention. I'm of the belief that recurrent OM amongst rural/ remote Indigenous children is a chronic condition, particularly for those aged between 0 and 4 years. The long-term impacts of child OM are enormous and seriously underreported nationally. Your thoughts? Cheers, Kyle