What is Hearing Impairment?
What is Hearing Impairment?
- Hearing Impairment: Reduced ability to hear sounds.
- Hearing Impairment: lack or significant deficiency of the sense of hearing.
Source - Diseases Database
- Hearing Impairment: impairment of the sense of hearing.
Source - WordNet 2.1
Hearing Impairment: Introduction
Types of Hearing Impairment:
Types of Hearing Impairment:
Broader types of Hearing Impairment:
How many people get Hearing Impairment?
Prevalance of Hearing Impairment: 22 million; 158 per 1000 (NHIS95)
Prevalance Rate of Hearing Impairment: approx 1 in 12 or 8.09% or 22 million people in USA [about data]
How serious is Hearing Impairment?
Complications of Hearing Impairment:
see complications of Hearing Impairment
What causes Hearing Impairment?
Causes of Hearing Impairment: see causes of Hearing Impairment
What are the symptoms of Hearing Impairment?
Symptoms of Hearing Impairment:
see symptoms of Hearing Impairment
Complications of Hearing Impairment:
see complications of Hearing Impairment
Hearing Impairment: Testing
Diagnostic testing: see tests for Hearing Impairment.
Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Hearing Impairment.
How is it treated?
Treatments for Hearing Impairment:
see treatments for Hearing Impairment
Research for Hearing Impairment:
see research for Hearing Impairment
Society issues for Hearing Impairment
Hospitalization statistics for Hearing Impairment:
The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Hearing Impairment:
- 0.014% (1,787) of hospital consultant episodes were for conductive and sensorineural hearing loss in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 100% of hospital consultant episodes for conductive and sensorineural hearing loss required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 51% of hospital consultant episodes for conductive and sensorineural hearing loss were for men in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 49% of hospital consultant episodes for conductive and sensorineural hearing loss were for women in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 6% of hospital consultant episodes for conductive and sensorineural hearing loss required emergency hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
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Organs Affected by Hearing Impairment:
Organs and body systems related to Hearing Impairment include:
Name and Aliases of Hearing Impairment
Main name of condition: Hearing Impairment
Other names or spellings for Hearing Impairment:
Hearing disorders, Hearing conditions
Hearing loss, Deafness
Source - Diseases Database
Hearing impairment, Hearing disorder
Source - WordNet 2.1
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