ArticleBulletin of the World Health Organization2019
Access to adults' hearing aids: policies and technologies used in eight countries.
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- Over-the-counter hearing aids and integrated health-monitoring sensors: a review of clinical evidence and implementation.Frontiers in digital health · 2026Review
- Gender differences in self-reported hearing loss and hearing aid use: a cross-national comparison.BMJ global health · 2025Article
- The Stigma of Hearing Loss: A Scoping Review of the Literature Across Age and Gender.Otolaryngology--head and neck surgery : official journal of American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery · 2025Article
- Global burden of hearing loss in people aged 60 years and older, 1990-2021: results from the global burden of disease study.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Prediction of Hearing Help Seeking to Design a Recommendation Module of an mHealth Hearing App: Intensive Longitudinal Study of Feature Importance Assessment.JMIR human factors · 2024Article
- Prediction of pure tone thresholds using the speech reception threshold and age in elderly individuals with hearing loss.BMC research notes · 2024Article
- Association between the home-to-healthcare center distance and hearing aid abandonment among older adults.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Self-Reported Hearing Aid Use in Russian Adults According to a National Survey.Audiology research · 2023Article
- A situational analysis of ear and hearing care in South Korea using WHO ear and Hearing Care Situation Analysis tool.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Smartphone-bundled earphones as personal sound amplification products in adults with sensorineural hearing loss.iScience · 2022Article
- Price reductions in hearing aids and access to audiologists, Israel.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2022Article
- Experienced hearing aid users' perspectives of assessment and communication within audiology: a qualitative study using digital methods.International journal of audiology · 2022Article
- Factors Affecting the Use of Speech Testing in Adult Audiology.American journal of audiology · 2022Article
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Abstract
As the proportion of older adults in the world's total population continues to grow, the adverse health outcomes of age-related hearing loss are becoming increasingly recognized. While research has shown that age-related hearing loss is the single greatest modifiable risk factor for dementia, use of hearing aids remains low worldwide, even in many middle- and high-income countries. Reasons for poor uptake of hearing aids are likely to involve a combination of factors, ranging from increasing costs of hearing aid technology to a widespread lack of insurance coverage. This article aims to identify the current state of access to hearing aids, focusing on eight middle- and high-income countries. We discuss how to facilitate greater access to hearing aids for patients by addressing changes in how devices are regulated, technological advancements in hearing devices, the need to adjust reimbursement schemes and the importance of adaptation among the community workforce for hearing-care.
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