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Communication with service providers, Indigenous people 15 years or over,2002RemoteNon-remote20Per cent151050Has difficulty understanding and beingunderstoodTotal experiencing difficultySource: ABS 2002 NATSISS (unpublished); table 9A.7.5.Box 1.60KEY MESSAGES• In 2002, based on survey data, Indigenous people aged 55 years and over had themost difficulty understanding and being understood by service providers(table 9A.7.7).• In 2004-05, an estimated 26 500 Indigenous adults needed to go to hospital in theprevious 12 months, but did not go because of cost, personal reasons, logisticalreasons or other barriers (figure 9.7.1 and table 9A.7.1).• The Western Australian Aboriginal Child Health Survey found that, even thoughthere was a high proportion of Aboriginal children at high risk of clinically significantemotional and behavioural difficulties, very few children had had contact with MentalHealth Services (section 9.7).52 OVERCOMINGINDIGENOUSDISADVANTAGE 2007