Emerging Issues in Health and Education in Asia-Pacific: A Focus on Speech-Language Pathology

Cheng, Li Rong Lilly

doi:10.1159/000314787

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“…2017, Wylie et al . 2012) and similar limitations can be found in Asia and other parts of Africa (Cheng 2010, Chu et al . 2019, Haas 2015, Pillay et al .…”

Section: Social Inequalities In the Receipt Of Health And Social Caresupporting

confidence: 58%

What are the implications of climate change for speech and language therapists?

Sherratt

2020

Intl J Lang & Comm Disor

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Background: The emerging global issue of climate change has large-scale effects on health and well-being, including communication disorders. The broad range of the speech and language therapy profession's scope of practice incorporates prevention, advocacy and equality in service delivery. These act as a springboard for involvement in climate change and health. Aims: This is an appeal to speech and language therapists (SLTs) to focus and take action on this issue and its considerable effects on communication and swallowing disorders. Methods & Procedures: This article discusses the importance of taking a public health position on prevention and equality of services to manage environmental determinants of communication and swallowing disorders. It also describes the extent to which climate change affects these disorders and exacerbates the inequality of healthcare services in low-and middle-income countries. Main Contribution: Five strategies are provided for action on fulfilling therapists' roles in reducing the incidence, development and exacerbation of climate-related communication and swallowing disorders, as well as the role of SLTs in acting as advocates. The case is made for expanding the scope of services to focus on prevention and service equality so as to best meet the needs of the wider community. Conclusions & Implications: Despite other challenges currently facing SLTs, climate change and its increasing effects on communication disorders and dysphagia is difficult to ignore. SLTs owe it to their clients, the wider community, low-and middle-income countries, the economy, and the future to take action.

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“…2017, Wylie et al . 2012) and similar limitations can be found in Asia and other parts of Africa (Cheng 2010, Chu et al . 2019, Haas 2015, Pillay et al .…”

Section: Social Inequalities In the Receipt Of Health And Social Caresupporting

confidence: 58%

What are the implications of climate change for speech and language therapists?

Sherratt

2020

Intl J Lang & Comm Disor

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“…In several countries in South America, and in some areas of India, audiology, and speech and language therapists are one profession, with a subspecialization. 42,43 In some instances speech and language therapists have trained abroad. For example, therapists in Paraguay have trained in Brazil, therapists in Bolivia and Venezuela in the United States, 42 and therapists in the Philippines and Singapore in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States.…”

Section: Deaf Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, therapists in Paraguay have trained in Brazil, therapists in Bolivia and Venezuela in the United States, 42 and therapists in the Philippines and Singapore in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. 43 Other examples document programmes in speech and language therapy that have been established with foreign assistance: for example in Sri Lanka and Uganda with volunteers from the United Kingdom, 44,45 in Togo with volunteers from France, 46 and in Viet Nam with volunteers from Australia. 47 The institutions in Togo and Uganda have subsequently become regional centres in Africa, training speech and language therapists specialists in Benin, Gabon and Mali, 46 and in Rwanda and the United Republic of Tanzania, respectively.…”

Section: Deaf Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Training for hearing care providers

Bhutta

Muñoz

et al. 2019

Bull. World Health Organ.

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The lack of an appropriately trained global hearing-care workforce is recognized as a barrier to developing and implementing services to treat ear and hearing disorders. In this article we examine some of the published literature on the current global workforce for ear and hearing care. We outline the status of both the primary-care workforce, including community health workers, and specialist services, including audiologists, ear, nose and throat specialists, speech and language therapists, and teachers of the deaf. We discuss models of training health workers in ear and hearing care, including the role of task-sharing and the challenges of training in low and middle-income countries. We structure the article by the components of ear and hearing care that may be delivered in isolation or in integrated models of care: primary care assessment and intervention; screening; hearing tests; hearing rehabilitation; middle-ear surgery; deaf services; and cochlear implant programmes. We highlight important knowledge gaps and areas for future research and reporting.

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“…It has been reported that there are almost as many Fijian-born doctors working in Australia and New Zealand as there are in Fiji (Negin, 2008). Cheng (2010) presents an initiative for building a locally trained rehabilitation workforce; a collaborative model with a US mainland university and the University of Guam to deliver a Master's level speech pathology course in Guam. This prevents the need for further training abroad, leading to the observation that if rehabilitation personnel are trained locally they may be more likely to remain in their own countries.…”

Section: Available and Culturally Relevant Workforcementioning

confidence: 99%