Editorial

Abstract

The third 2011 issue of the Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Fonoaudiologia presents one more important overview about the knowledge produced by Brazilian Speech and Language Pathology and Audiology. The papers presented report research and studies conducted with methodological care and that were generously reviewed by peers that invariably provided suggestions that contributed to improve the quality of the manuscripts and therefore of the Revista.Studies about our reality with persons that speak Portuguese and use the national health and educational systems represent as essential contribution to improve the scientifically supported professional activity.Editors, reviewers, authors and technical personnel are deeply involved with perfectioning the Revista and including it in selective databases. This is constant team-work. But the impact of the Revista to the Brazilian Speech and Language Pathology and Audiology is indisputable.One proof that this team-work is in constant evolution is the number of papers that are being published in English, as well as in Portuguese. In the first numbers of 2011, when we started to optionally publish this version we had six papers published in both languages in each issue. In this third issue we have ten papers that may be read by a larger group of professionals and researchers.Below is a list of what can be found: Santos & Lemos wrote the paper Construction of the health promotion concept: comparative study between freshmen and senior Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology students that reported that most of the subjects participated in courses and activities involving health promotion. They concluded that data confirm the importance to discuss health promotion issues during the educational process of speech-language pathologists and audiologists.Bevilacqua, Morettin, Melo, Amantini & Martinez present the paper Contributions for the Brazilian hearing health policy assessment that quantified the procedures related to hearing aid fitting between 2004 and 2010. The authors conclude that despite the great progress in the hearing impaired attention policy, it is still necessary to improve the audiological follow-up to hearing aid users, and to review specific procedures.Significant auditory threshold shift among workers exposed to different noise levels is the title of the original paper by Oliva, Morata, Lacerda, Steinmetz, Bramatti, Vivan, Gonçalves & Marques that assessed hearing threshold and its shifts in workers exposed to different noise levels. According to the authors the findings suggest that there is association between auditory threshold shifts and the exposure to low risk noise levels.The study Vocal symptoms and laryngeal sensations in workers of an ethanol and sugar mill exposed to occupational risks was performed by Coutinho, Fiorini, Oliveira, Latorre & Ferreira that concluded that vocal symptoms and laryngeal sensations may be related to professional activities where there is exposure to physical and/or chemical risks.Tutya, Zambon, Oliveira & Behlau report the ...