Preventive Audiology: An African perspective [Internet]

Sections

• Health and Veterinary Sciences domain editorial board at AOSIS
• Abbreviations and acronyms, boxes, figures and tables appearing in the text and notes
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on contributors
• Chapter 1. Preventive audiology: Ramping up efforts towards an ear-and-hearing healthy nation
• Chapter 2. Tele-audiology and preventive audiology: A capacity versus demand challenge imperative in South Africa
• Chapter 3. Tele-audiology within the African school context: Opportunities, challenges and proposed solutions
• Chapter 4. Community-based audiology services: An effective strategy for the prevention of hearing loss in rural communities
• Chapter 5. Preventing middle ear pathologies in the South African context: A proposed programmatic approach
• Chapter 6. Ototoxicity vigilance as a preventive audiology imperative within the African context: Pharmaco-audiology explored
• Chapter 7. The earlier the better: Framing EHDI within preventive audiology
• Chapter 8. Early hearing detection and intervention: Considering the role of caregivers as key co-drivers within the African context
• Chapter 9. Preventive audiology in the context of deafblindness
• Chapter 10. Economic evaluation of EHDI programmes in South Africa: Putting EHDI on the political advocacy and resource allocation agenda
• Chapter 11. Early detection and management of occupational and environmental noise
• Chapter 12. Occupational noise-induced hearing loss and preventive audiology: Using contemporary evidence to achieve zero-ear harm in South African mines
• Chapter 13. Machine learning models: Predictive tools for occupational noise-induced hearing loss in the South African mining industry
• References