Prevention of Hearing Loss

Valerie Newton (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

398 Seiten

2013
Nova Science Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-1-61942-745-7 (ISBN)

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Hearing loss is a chronic and often lifelong disability that can cause profound damage to the development of speech, language, and cognitive skills in children, especially when commencing before the critical period of language development in infancy. That damage, in turn, affects the child's progress in school and, later, his or her ability to obtain, keep, and perform an occupation. In addition to its effects on individuals, data from several countries indicate that hearing loss has huge economic consequences. Thus, prevention of hearing loss, as well as being socially and morally justifiable, makes substantial economic sense as well.

Foreward; Preface; Hearing loss, definitions and classification; Global and regional hearing impairment prevalence; Mechanisms of hearing loss of cochlear origin; Consequences of hearing impairment to the individual & society; Overall strategies of prevention; The role of immunisation in the prevention of hearing loss; Nutrients and hearing; Genetic counselling; Screening and surveillance; Treatment -- medical and surgical; Rehabilitation and sensory aids; Industrial hearing conservation; Social and community noise; Building design for the hard of hearing; The use of economic analysis in hearing impairment control; Access to health care; National and regional programmes; Global prevention of hearing loss: achievements and future; Index.

Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	260 x 180 mm
Gewicht	874 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► HNO-Heilkunde
ISBN-10	1-61942-745-1 / 1619427451
ISBN-13	978-1-61942-745-7 / 9781619427457
Zustand	Neuware