Nearly 2.5 billion people worldwide, or one in four people, may be living with some degree of hearing loss by 2050, and at least 700 million of them will require access to ear and hearing care and other rehabilitation services unless action is .
Nearly 2.5 billion people worldwide, or one in four people, may be living with some degree of hearing loss by 2050, and at least 700 million of them will require access to ear and hearing care and other rehabilitation services unless action is taken.
Generating awareness on Hearing Day
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Skit highlights importance of early detection and timely treatment
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Skit highlights importance of early detection and timely treatment
The Departments of Pediatrics, and Community and Family Medicine at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bibinagar, organised an awareness programme on the occasion of World Hearing Day on Wednesday.
The theme for this year is ‘Hearing Care for All: Screen, Rehabilitate, Communicate’.
Undergraduate medical students performed a skit on the occasion, highlighting the importance of early recognition of hearing loss, screening and timely treatment.
The participants were informed that hearing loss may result from genetic causes, complications at birth, certain infectious diseases, chronic ear infections, exposure to loud sounds, use of ototoxic medicines, and ageing.
Awareness drives and local initiative to share the gift of hearing on World Hearing Day Image Credit: Shutterstock
More than 70 million people suffer from hearing disability around the world, with an estimate also suggesting that more than 80 per cent of people who are clinically deaf said to exist in the world’s developing nations.
A global initiative fronted by the World Health Organisation (WHO), World Hearing Day is commemorated annually on March 3 to raise awareness on how to prevent deafness and hearing loss and promote ear and hearing care across the world. With an annual theme for World Hearing Day decided upon by WHO, the theme for 2021 is Hearing Care For All. At its headquarters in Geneva, WHO organises an annual World Hearing Day event.
As the Indian market gets flooded with all kinds of wearables and wireless earphones/headphones, monitoring your daily audio exposure is critical as long exposure to sound can impact hearing abilities in the long term. On the World Hearing Day that fell on Wednesday, your iPhone, iPod touch, or Apple Watch can measure your headphone audio levels so you can monitor your audio exposure over the past hour, day, week, month or year in the Health app. The Noise app on Apple Watch also measures ambient sound levels in your environment to identify when the decibel level could negatively impact your hearing.