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ArticleHealth research policy and systems2020

Public health policy-making for hearing loss: stakeholders' evaluation of a novel eHealth tool.

Giorgos Dritsakis, Lyubov Trenkova, Mariola Śliwińska-Kowalska, Dario Brdarić, Niels Henrik Pontoppidan, Panagiotis Katrakazas, Doris-Eva Bamiou

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Article in Health research policy and systems, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Healthcare Professionals and Noise-Generating Tools: Challenging Assumptions about Hearing Loss Risk.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors at 5 institutions in 4 countries.

Giorgos DritsakisUniversity College London, Ear Institute, London, United Kingdom.
Lyubov TrenkovaPazardzhik Regional Administration, Pazardzhik, Bulgaria.
Mariola Śliwińska-KowalskaDepartment of Audiology and Phoniatrics, Lodz, Poland.
Dario BrdarićInstitute of Public Health for the Osijek-Baranja County, Osijek, Croatia.
Niels Henrik PontoppidanEriksholm Research Centre, Oticon A/S, Snekkersten, Denmark.
Panagiotis KatrakazasBiomedical Engineering Laboratory, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, Athens, Greece.
Doris-Eva BamiouUniversity College London, Ear Institute, London, United Kingdom. d.bamiou@ucl.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7486-4264
Institute of Communication and Computer Systems · GRInstitute of Public Health Osijek-Baranja County · HRNational Institute for Health Research · GBOticon Medical (Denmark) · DKUniversity College London · GB

Funding

Horizon 2020 Framework Programme 727521
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundHearing loss (HL) affects 466 million people of all ages worldwide, with a rapidly increasing prevalence, and therefore requires appropriate public health policies. Multi-disciplinary approaches that make use of eHealth services can build the evidence to influence public policy. The European Union-funded project EVOTION developed a platform that is fed with real-time data from hearing aids, a smartphone, and additional clinical data and makes public health policy recommendations based on hypothetical public health policy-making models, a big data engine and decision support system. The present study aimed to evaluate this platform as a new tool to support policy-making for HL.

methodsA total of 23 key stakeholders in the United Kingdom, Croatia, Bulgaria and Poland evaluated the platform according to the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats methodology.

resultsThere was consensus that the platform, with its advanced technology as well as the amount and variety of data that it can collect, has huge potential to inform commissioning decisions, public health regulations and affect healthcare as a whole. To achieve this, several limitations and external risks need to be addressed and mitigated. Differences between countries highlighted that the EVOTION tool should be used and managed according to local constraints to maximise success.

conclusionOverall, the EVOTION platform can equip HL policy-makers with a novel data-driven tool that can support public health policy-making for HL in the future.

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Hearing LossTelemedicineHealth PolicyHumansPublic HealthPublic PolicyUnited Kingdombig dataEVOTION platformhearing losspolicy-makingpublic healthSWOT

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PMID33121491
PMCPMC7596974
OpenAlexW3095218947

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