Important facts
By 2050, nearly 2.5 billion people are expected to have some degree of hearing loss, with over 700 million people needing to be audited for rehabilitation. Over 1 billion young adults are at risk of permanent and avoidable hearing loss due to unsafe listening practices. Expanding ear and hearing care services worldwide requires an additional annual investment of less than USD 1.40 per person. This promises a return of nearly USD 16 per investment.
overview
Over 5% of the world’s population (430 million) need rehabilitation to deal with disability hearing loss (including 34 million children). It is estimated that more than 700 million people (1 in 10) will ineffect hearing loss by 2050.
Invalidation of hearing loss refers to hearing loss exceeding 35 decibels (db) of better hearing ears. Almost 80% of people with hearing loss disability live in low- and middle-income countries. Over 25% of people over 60 are affected by hearing loss, and the prevalence of hearing loss increases with age.
Hearing loss and hearing loss
People who cannot hear and those with normal hearing – those who listen to hearing thresholds of 20 dB or higher in both ears are said to have hearing loss. Hearing loss can be mild, moderate, moderately severe, severe, or severe. It can affect one or both ears, making it difficult to hear speeches or loud sounds in conversation.
Hearing loss refers to people with mild to severe hearing impairment. People with hearing difficulty usually communicate through spoken language and can benefit from hearing aids, cochlear implants, other aid devices, and captions.
The deaf people have mostly severe hearing loss, which means little or no hearing. They can benefit from cochlear implants. Some of them use sign language for communication.
Causes of hearing loss and hearing loss
These factors can be encountered at various periods of their overall life span, but individuals are most susceptible to their own influence at critical times in their lives.
Prenatal
Genetic factors such as heterogeneous and non-hereditary hearing loss-loss bacterium infections – such as rubella and cytomegalovirus infections.
Perinatal period
Birth nitrogen (lack of oxygen at birth) Hyperbilirubinemia (severe yellowing in neonatal period), low birth weight and other perinatal morbidity and its management.
Childhood and adolescence
Collection of fluids for chronic ear infections (chronic suppurative otitis media), ear (chronic non-exfoliated otitis media), meningitis and other infections.
Adulthood and age
Chronic Disorders Interferences Sensory and Auditory Disorders associated with Scleroscence Sclerosis.
Overall life span factor
Selmen collision to the ear (impact ear wax) trauma or headlood noise/loud sound exposure toxicity drugs ototoxicity chemotrophic deficiency virus infection and other ear conditions or progressive gene hearing loss.
The effects of unaddressed hearing loss
If not addressed, hearing loss affects many aspects of life at the individual level.
Limitations in communication and speech influenced cognitive social isolation, loneliness, and economic effects on society, living with access to education and employment in the Disability (YDL) and Adjusted Lifetime of Disability (DALYS).
Prevention
Many causes of hearing loss can be avoided through public health strategies and clinical interventions implemented throughout the life course.
Prevention of hearing loss is essential throughout your life course, from prenatal and perinatal periods to older age. In children, nearly 60% of hearing loss are due to avoidable causes that can be prevented through the implementation of public health measures. Similarly, the most common causes of hearing loss in adults, such as loud volume and exposure to ototoxic drugs, are preventable.
Effective strategies to reduce hearing loss at various stages of your life course include:
Immunod Maternal and Childcare Practice Practice and Management of General Ear Condition Concepts Management and Management of Ear Condition Hearing Protection Programs for Noise and Chemical Exposure
Identification and management
Early identification of hearing loss and ear diseases is key to effective management.
This requires systematic screening for the detection of hearing loss and related ear diseases in the most at-risk people. This includes:
Newborn and infant kindergarten and school-age children were exposed to noise and chemicals from workers receiving ototoxic adults.
Auditory assessments and ear testing can be performed in clinical and community settings. Tools such as the Hearwho app and other technology-based solutions allow for screening training and resources with limited ear diseases and hearing loss.
Once hearing loss is identified, it is essential that it is addressed in the appropriate manner as soon as possible to mitigate the adverse effects.
Rehabilitation for hearing loss
Rehabilitation helps people with hearing loss function optimally. This means that you can be as independent as possible in your daily activities. Specifically, rehabilitation can help you participate in lifelong participation in education, work, recreation, meaningful roles in, e.g., family and community. Rehabilitation interventions for people with hearing loss include:
Provide and train hearing techniques (hearing aids, cochlear implants, middle ear implants, etc.); speech and speech therapy to enhance perceptual skills and develop communication and language abilities; use of sign language and other means of sensory replacement (e.g., using speech, Tadoma, Tadoma, printing of signed communication); provision of hearing assistive technologies, and services (e.g., frequency modulation and loop systems, alert devices, telecommunication devices, caption services, interpretation of sign language). Counseling, training and support to strengthen engagement in education, work and community life.
Who will respond
Our commitment to ear and hearing care is to promote integrated, people-centered ear and hearing care (IPC-EHC).
The WHO’s work is guided by the WHO World Report on Hearing (2021) and the recommendations of the World Health Conference’s resolution on the prevention of hearing loss and hearing loss.
Who includes the job:
Guidance, support, and support of Member States to raise awareness of ear and hearing care issues; Through the World Report on Hearing, we provide guidance to provide capacity building for technical systems to promote technical resources and guidance, including promoting the generation and dissemination of data and information related to ear and hearing care, and to promote technical systems capacity building to promote hearing impairment, including the promotion of technical resources and guidance, including the promotion of hearing rehabilitation. Ear and hearing care through major ear and hearing care training resources. It promotes the promotion of safe listening by reducing the risk of recreational noise-induced hearing loss through WHO. Observe and promote World Hearing Day as an annual advocacy event. We will develop partnerships to develop strong hearing care programs, including affordable and accessible ear and hearing care services and initiatives that include approaches to providing services suitable for low- and middle-income countries and co-cat implants. Advokamis for ear and hearing care through the world’s hearing forums.
