2014
DOI: 10.2471/blt.13.128728
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The global burden of disabling hearing impairment: a call to action

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“…5,[92][93][94] For example, the WHO recommends that the target price for an "affordable" hearing aid should be no more than 3% of the per capita of the user's country. This amount translates to a maximum of about US$180 for the eligible LMICs in this paper, and excludes the costs of ear …”
Section: Cost Of Intervention Servicesmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…5,[92][93][94] For example, the WHO recommends that the target price for an "affordable" hearing aid should be no more than 3% of the per capita of the user's country. This amount translates to a maximum of about US$180 for the eligible LMICs in this paper, and excludes the costs of ear …”
Section: Cost Of Intervention Servicesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…[1][2][3] Available data from the World Health Organization (WHO) also suggest that approximately 7.5 million children below the age of 5 years have disabling ($30 dBHL) hearing impairment worldwide, the vast majority (at least 80%) of whom reside in LMICs. 4,5 Without timely and appropriate intervention, these children are faced with a lifetime of speech and language difficulties and overall developmental deficits that place severe limitations on their educational and vocational attainments. [6][7][8][9] In fact, untreated sensorineural hearing impairment in the first year of life has profound adverse consequences that transverse almost all developmental domains, manifesting in significant and often lifelong deficits in gross and fine motor skills, cognitive performance, speech and language development, and psychosocial development ( Figure 1).…”
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“…Acquired hearing impairment often goes untreated, and has been described as a major public health problem (Olusanya et al, 2014) for its prevalence and major negative consequences. Further, uptake of rehabilitative interventions is low.…”
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“…WHO estimates in 2012 that there are 360 million persons in the world with disabling hearing loss (5.3% of the world's population), 328 million (91%) are adults and 32 million (9%) are children [1]. The incidence of permanent congenital hearing loss or childhood hearing loss in low and middle-income countries can be three times higher than the incidence in the high-income region [2]. Among all types of hearing loss, sensorineural hearing loss is the most common.…”
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“…60% of childhood hearing loss is due to preventable causes such as otitis media, recreational noise-induced hearing loss, ototoxicity, etc. Early detection and intervention is therefore extremely important in children, since the hearing loss will affect their ability to learn, and hinder their crucial language, speech and emotion development [2]. Learning tonal languages such as Thai, especially, can be greatly affected in children with hearing difficulty, as studied in [3].…”
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confidence: 99%