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Hearing loss and deafness. A person who is not able to hear as well as someone with normal hearing – hearing thresholds of 20 dB or better in both ears – is said to have hearing loss. Hearing loss may be mild, moderate, severe or profound. It can affect one ear or both ears and leads to difficulty in hearing conversational speech or loud ...
Deafness and hearing loss. A person is said to have hearing loss if they are not able to hear as well as someone with normal hearing, meaning hearing thresholds of 20 dB or better in both ears. It can be mild, moderate, moderately severe, severe or profound, and can affect one or both ears. Major causes of hearing loss include congenital or ...
The World Report on Hearing (WRH) has been developed in response to the World Health Assembly resolution (WHA70.13), adopted in 2017 as a means of providing guidance for Member States to integrate ear and hearing care into their national health plans. Based on the best available evidence, this report presents epidemiological and financial data ...
Globally, at least 2.2 billion people have a near or distance vision impairment. In at least 1 billion of these, vision impairment could have been prevented or is yet to be addressed. The leading causes of vision impairment and blindness at a global level are refractive errors and cataracts. It is estimated that globally only 36% of people with ...
The World Report on Hearing (WRH) has been developed in response to the World Health Assembly resolution (WHA70.13), adopted in 2017 as a means of providing guidance for Member States to integrate ear and hearing care into their national health plans. Based on the best available evidence, this report presents epidemiological and financial data ...
WHO estimates that about 60% of hearing loss is due to preventable causes.4. Over 30% of childhood hearing loss is caused by infections, such as rubella, cytomegalovirus, mumps, meningitis, measles and chronic ear infections. Meningitis. and rubella together are responsible for over 19% of childhood hearing loss.
It aims to promote ear and hearing care (EHC), integrated within national primary health care systems. Deafness and hearing loss are widespread and found in each country in the Western Pacific. Currently, more than 546 million people live with hearing loss in the Western Pacific; 430 million of them have disabling hearing loss.
The Sensory Functions, Disability and Rehabilitation (SDR) unit is responsible for leading, coordinating and promoting global action to address sensory impairments, strengthen rehabilitation services in the health system, and advance health equity for persons with disabilities. SDR's focus is comprised of the following programmatic areas: eye ...
Vision and hearing interventions are some of the most cost-effective that exist, yet they are too frequently difficult to access and poorly integrated into health services. The impact of vision and hearing loss is also influenced by other coexisting conditions. Dual sensory loss (deafblindness) affects 0.2–2.0% of the global population ...
Disability is part of being human. An estimated 1.3 billion people – about 16% of the global population – currently experience significant disability. This number is increasing due in part to population ageing and an increase in the prevalence of noncommunicable diseases. Disability results from the interaction between individuals with a ...