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Background: Hearing loss is a neglected global health priority affecting 1.5 billion persons. Global access to hearing care is severely limited with management options, like hearing aids, inaccessible to most. The cost and centralised nature of traditional service-delivery approaches in hearing care have undermined equitable access alongside poor awareness.
Summary: Recent innovations in digital and mHealth hearing technologies used by health workers through task shifting are enabling novel community-based services across the continuum of care. This narrative review explores technology-enabled hearing care in communities. We provide examples focused on our work over the past decade to explore more equitable hearing care across primary, secondary, and tertiary levels of prevention.
Key messages: Hearing health innovations have the potential to increase access to care, improve the quality of life for those affected by hearing loss, and reduce global costs associated with untreated hearing loss. More equitable hearing care is a global health priority that requires scalable service-delivery models enabled by innovative technologies within communities and integrated into public health initiatives including hearing health promotion.
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Published since 1947, ''Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica'' provides a forum for international research on the anatomy, physiology, and pathology of structures of the speech, language, and hearing mechanisms. Original papers published in this journal report new findings on basic function, assessment, management, and test development in communication sciences and disorders, as well as experiments designed to test specific theories of speech, language, and hearing function. Review papers of high quality are also welcomed.
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