Audiology education and practice from an international perspective

Goulios, Helen; Patuzzi, Robert

doi:10.1080/14992020802203322

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“…Hearing health care surveys confirm that the paucity of services is in large part due to the limited numbers of available hearing health care professionals globally (Goulios & Patuzzi, 2008;Fagan & Jacobs, 2009). The average ratio of audiologists to the general population in developing countries reportedly varies between one for every half a million people to as high as one for every 6.25 million people.…”

Section: Inadequacy Of Global Hearing Health Care Servicesmentioning

confidence: 91%

“…In developed countries the average ratio for audiologists to people was one to every 20,000 (Goulios & Patuzzi, 2008). These shortages of hearing health care professionals are primarily due to a reported lack of government funding, professional and public awareness, and, most significantly, available training programs (Goulios & Patuzzi, 2008).…”

Section: Inadequacy Of Global Hearing Health Care Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Telehealth in audiology: The need and potential to reach underserved communities

Swanepoel

Clark

Koekemoer³

et al. 2010

International Journal of Audiology

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Permanent hearing loss is a leading global health care burden, with 1 in 10 people affected to a mild or greater degree. A shortage of trained healthcare professionals and associated infrastructure and resource limitations mean that hearing health services are unavailable to the majority of the world population. Utilizing information and communication technology in hearing health care, or tele-audiology, combined with automation offer unique opportunities for improved clinical care, widespread access to services, and more cost-effective and sustainable hearing health care. Tele-audiology demonstrates significant potential in areas such as education and training of hearing health care professionals, paraprofessionals, parents, and adults with hearing disorders; screening for auditory disorders; diagnosis of hearing loss; and intervention services. Global connectivity is rapidly growing with increasingly widespread distribution into underserved communities where audiological services may be facilitated through telehealth models. Although many questions related to aspects such as quality control, licensure, jurisdictional responsibility, certification and reimbursement still need to be addressed; no alternative strategy can currently offer the same potential reach for impacting the global burden of hearing loss in the near and foreseeable future.

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Section: Inadequacy Of Global Hearing Health Care Servicesmentioning

confidence: 91%

Section: Inadequacy Of Global Hearing Health Care Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Telehealth in audiology: The need and potential to reach underserved communities

Swanepoel

Clark

Koekemoer³

et al. 2010

International Journal of Audiology

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“…Unfortunately, there are limited prospects of identifying hearing loss in children, particularly within developing regions such as sub-Saharan Africa where an estimated 6.8 million children suffer from permanent disabling hearing loss [5,8,9]. This may be attributed to the absence of early hearing detection and identification (EHDI) programs due to reasons including limited human resources for ear and hearing care, a lack of appropriate equipment, costs and other health care priorities [10,11].…”

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Community-based hearing screening for young children using an mHealth service-delivery model

Hussein

Swanepoel

Mahomed

et al. 2018

Global Health Action

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Background: Hearing loss is one of the most common developmental disorders identifiable at birth with its prevalence increasing throughout school years. However, early detection programs are mostly unavailable in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) where more than 80% of children with hearing loss reside.Objective: This study investigated the feasibility of a smartphone-based hearing screening program for preschool children operated by community healthcare workers (CHWs) in community-based early childhood development (ECD) centers.Method: Five CHWs were trained to map ECD centers and conduct smartphone-based hearing screenings within a poor community in South Africa over a 12-month period. The hearScreenTM smartphone application employed automated test protocols operating on low-cost smartphones. A cloud-based data management and referral function allowed for remote monitoring for surveillance and follow up.Results: 6424 children (3–6 years) were screened for hearing loss with an overall referral rate of 24.9%. Only 39.4% of these children attended their follow-up appointment at a local clinic, of whom 40.5% referred on their second screening. Logistic regression analysis indicated that age, gender and environmental noise levels (1 kHz) had a significant effect on referral rates (p < 0.05). The quality index reflecting test operator test quality increased during the first few months of testing.Conclusion: Smartphone-based hearing screening can be used by CHWs to detect unidentified children affected by hearing loss within ECD centers. Active noise monitoring, quality indices of test operators and cloud-based data management and referral features of the hearScreenTM application allows for the asynchronous management of hearing screenings and follow-ups.

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“…This deficiency is a global phenomenon -an analysis made with 62 countries has shown that 86% of them do not have enough professionals to meet their own needs 17 . This scenario is quite worrying considering that, at the same time, a combination of trends will result on a higher demand for SLP-Audiologists on the following decades: advances in medicine will entail higher life expectancy rates and therefore bring significant demographic changes such as population aging, meaning that the number of people with neurological and hearing disorders will tend to increase with time.…”

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Fonoaudiologia como opção de carreira universitária: estudo exploratórioSpeech Language Pathology and Audiology as a higher education option: exploratory study

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Conflict of interest: non existent a period where the student has to choose whether to join an institution of higher education based on factors such as their socioeconomic profile. One option is enrolling at an undergraduate course that may offer different habilitations and usually last four years 1 . The National Health Council has recognized fourteen higher-education careers within healthrelated fields: biomedicine, biology, physical education, nursing, physiotherapy, medicine, veterinary medicine, nutritional sciences, dentistry, psychology, social work, occupational therapy and SLP-AudiologyAs far as the latter is concerned, the foundations of this career in Brazil were set in the sixties, with the creation of an SPL-Audiology undergraduate course at the University of Sao Paulo (USP) in 1960 and, a year after, at the Pontifical Catholic University (PUC) of Sao Paulo. In 1976, with the approval of a course ABSTRACT Purpose: to identify factors that led Speech and Language Pathology and Audiology students to choose the career as well as the information they would have liked to receive before entering College. Methods: exploratory, descriptive, cross-sectional study. SLP-Audiology students of undergraduate courses in the University of São Paulo (Bauru, São Paulo and Ribeirão Preto campus) and graduate students (Bauru campus) were asked to complete, anonymously, an online questionnaire consisting of 10 questions about their career choices and about the sources and adequacy of information regarding the SLP-Audiology profession before college entrance examination. Results: the questionnaire was answered 201 individuals (144 undergraduates and 57 graduates). SLP-Audiology was the first career option for 119 (59.2%) of the participants. Interest in the profession was the motivator of choice for 42% of the participants. For 58% of respondents, the University status, the candidate/vacancy ratio and the influence of family members, among others, led to the SLP-Audiology career choice. Profession guides were the main sources of information and 80% of respondents were not satisfied with the information received before entering College, most indicating they would like to learn more about the areas where SLP-Audiologists can work. Conclusion: factors unrelated to career affinity where the motivator for the choice of SLP-Audiology profession for most participants. There is need to intensify the information process about this career especially among high school students.

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Audiology education and practice from an international perspective

Cited by 109 publications

References 9 publications

Telehealth in audiology: The need and potential to reach underserved communities

Telehealth in audiology: The need and potential to reach underserved communities

Community-based hearing screening for young children using an mHealth service-delivery model

Fonoaudiologia como opção de carreira universitária: estudo exploratórioSpeech Language Pathology and Audiology as a higher education option: exploratory study

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