NDLI: mHealth Solutions in Hearing Care for Sub-Saharan Africa

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mHealth Solutions in Hearing Care for Sub-Saharan Africa

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Author	Mahomed-Asmail, Faheem A. Swanepoel, De Wet
Copyright Year	2020
Description	Over 5% of the world's population, 466 million people, have a disabling hearing loss with the prevalence of hearing loss set to increase due to an aging world population. This together with the limited number of hearing health providers globally exacerbates the gap in demand for hearing care and the availability of hearing care. Furthermore, countries are unlikely to invest in the high costs associated with typical audiometric equipment and the need for skilled persons to conduct audiometry is a major barrier to access. As a result, hearing loss remains largely unidentified in children and adults. However, with the widespread penetration of 1.08 billion smartphones worldwide, mobile health or mHealth hearing health applications are demonstrating promise to overcome barriers of cost and penetration. This chapter considers mHealth projects underway in sub-Saharan Africa for improved hearing health access. These projects include consumer solutions (e.g., hearZa) as well as the clinical use of mobile applications for screening and diagnosis (e.g., hearScreen and hearTest) in the health and education settings. Book Name: Advances in Audiology and Hearing Science
Related Links	https://content.taylorfrancis.com/books/download?dac=C2019-0-99185-4&isbn=9780429292620&doi=10.1201/9780429292620-16&format=pdf
Ending Page	364
Page Count	16
Starting Page	349
DOI	10.1201/9780429292620-16
Language	English
Publisher	Informa UK Limited
Publisher Date	2020-06-09
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Book Name: Advances in Audiology and Hearing Science Audiology and Language Otorhinolaryngology Hearing Children Mhealth Sub Saharan Africa Penetration
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Chapter

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