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Cytomegalovirus: Screening, Treatment, and Prevention Strategies 巨细胞病毒:筛选、治疗和预防策略
Pub Date : 2023-05-24 DOI: 10.1097/01.hj.0000938620.95430.10
Andy Polhamus
It’s a virus that can spread through even brief physical contact, and can have serious, long-lasting consequences in newborns. There is no vaccine currently available, and experts say that far too few people know that it can happen to their families.www.shutterstock.com.Cytomegalovirus, or CMV, is an extremely common but sometimes devastating infection that occurs in adults and children alike. And although most people will contract CMV and recover without even knowing they’ve had it, congenital CMV is the leading infectious cause of birth defects in the United States. It is also the single most common of any congenital infection. One of the most significant birth defects associated with congenital CMV is hearing loss. With June marking National Cytomegalovirus Awareness Month, The Hearing Journal spoke with experts about screening, treatment, and prevention strategies, as well as new developments in this rapidly changing area of medicine. EPIDEMIOLOGY The CDC says that more than half of adults in the United States will be infected with cytomegalovirus by the time they turn 40. Further, the agency reports, one in every three children will be infected before they reach their fifth birthday. Many people will be infected with the virus without ever knowing it. Infections may be completely asymptomatic or produce influenza-like symptoms so mild that the illness passes without the infected person giving it a second thought. However, the CDC explains, once the virus is inside a person’s body, it stays there for the rest of the person’s life. The virus, which is a type of herpes virus, can be reactivated in a person’s body years after infection, and people may also be reinfected later with another strain. “It’s believed that about 50% to 80% of adults in the United States will have contracted CMV before they’re 40 years of age,” says Angela Shoup, PhD, Executive Director of the Callier Center for Communication Disorders, Professor of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas and Professor of Otolaryngology. “There are other prevalence rates, depending on the global location, that range from 45% to 100%. And you can contract it very easily. You can get it from any exposure to bodily fluids.” Some examples, Shoup explained, can include contracting the virus while changing a baby’s diaper, wiping off a pacifier after a toddler drops it, or even a simple kiss. Even symptomatic infections can be hard to identify. People experiencing symptoms of CMV infections generally experience mild, influenza-like symptoms, including fatigue, sore throat, and fever. CMV is most dangerous in those with weakened immune systems and when caught before birth. “Typically, once contracted, CMV will remain dormant for most of your life,” says Shoup. “But the problem we encounter, and are really cognizant of, is when cytomegalovirus is contracted by an adult who’s been immunocompromised. Patients with HIV can have severe sequelae from cytomegalovirus. Anybo
这种病毒甚至可以通过短暂的身体接触传播,对新生儿造成严重而持久的后果。目前还没有可用的疫苗,专家说,很少有人知道它会发生在他们的家人身上。www.shutterstock.com.Cytomegalovirus,或CMV,是一种极其常见但有时毁灭性的感染,发生在成人和儿童身上。虽然大多数人会感染巨细胞病毒并在不知情的情况下康复,但先天性巨细胞病毒是美国出生缺陷的主要传染性原因。它也是所有先天性感染中最常见的一种。与先天性巨细胞病毒相关的最重要的出生缺陷之一是听力丧失。随着6月是全国巨细胞病毒宣传月,《听力杂志》与专家就筛查、治疗和预防策略以及这一快速变化的医学领域的新发展进行了交谈。美国疾病控制与预防中心表示,美国超过一半的成年人将在40岁之前感染巨细胞病毒。此外,该机构报告说,每三个儿童中就有一个在五岁生日之前被感染。许多人会在不知情的情况下感染这种病毒。感染可能是完全无症状的,或者产生类似流感的症状,症状非常轻微,以至于感染者不会再想它。然而,疾病预防控制中心解释说,一旦病毒进入人体内,它就会在人的余生中留在那里。这种病毒是疱疹病毒的一种,在感染数年后可以在人体内重新激活,人们也可能在之后再次感染另一种病毒。“据信,美国约有50%至80%的成年人在40岁之前会感染巨细胞病毒,”卡利尔交流障碍中心执行主任、德克萨斯大学达拉斯分校行为和脑科学教授、耳鼻喉科教授Angela Shoup博士说。“根据全球位置的不同,还有其他患病率,从45%到100%不等。你可以很容易地收缩它。你可以通过接触体液而感染。”Shoup解释说,一些例子可能包括在给婴儿换尿布时感染病毒,在蹒跚学步的孩子掉下奶嘴后擦拭奶嘴,甚至是一个简单的吻。即使是有症状的感染也很难识别。出现巨细胞病毒感染症状的人通常会出现轻微的流感样症状,包括疲劳、喉咙痛和发烧。巨细胞病毒最危险的是那些免疫系统较弱的人,在出生前被感染。“通常情况下,一旦感染,巨细胞病毒将在你生命的大部分时间里保持休眠状态,”Shoup说。“但我们遇到并真正认识到的问题是,当免疫功能低下的成年人感染巨细胞病毒时。巨细胞病毒感染艾滋病毒的患者可能有严重的后遗症。任何免疫系统受损的人都更有风险。”根据疾病预防控制中心的说法,这些后遗症可能会损害肝脏、肺、食道、胃、肠和眼睛。在新生儿中,巨细胞病毒在子宫内感染可导致一系列问题,包括黄疸、血小板减少症、小头畸形、出生时小于胎龄、认知障碍、肺和脾问题以及听力或视力丧失。在美国,大约每200个出生的婴儿中就有一个患有先天性巨细胞病毒,其中20%的婴儿会出现症状,包括与该病毒广泛相关的听力丧失。巨细胞病毒导致听力损伤的机制尚不完全清楚,Shoup说,但有关这一主题的科学文献表明,这种病毒可能通过不止一种途径影响听力。一种机制可能是病毒在细胞水平上对耳蜗造成损害,而另一种机制是感染后发生的炎症。专家说,了解巨细胞病毒及其潜在并发症的人太少了。国家巨细胞病毒基金会(NationalCMV.org)估计,只有9%的女性知道这种病毒。犹他大学儿科耳鼻喉科主任Albert Park医学博士说:“对这种情况的认识相当低。”“我们都知道新冠病毒,甚至寨卡病毒也引起了国民的注意。但是,不幸的是,先天性巨细胞病毒还没有达到这种阈值。然而,就这种情况对公共卫生的影响而言,巨细胞病毒肯定比寨卡病毒更频繁。”与此同时,帕克补充说,大多数美国人更熟悉唐氏综合症和脊柱裂等先天性疾病,这些疾病实际上比巨细胞病毒更少见。Park是一组研究人员中的一员,他们在过去的二十年里致力于开发先天性巨细胞病毒的有效诊断测试。在此期间,他看到医护人员对这种病毒的认识稳步提高。
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Dual-Sensory Impairment: When 1+1=3 双感觉障碍:当1+1=3时
Pub Date : 2023-05-24 DOI: 10.1097/01.hj.0000938632.49580.f5
Harvey B. Abrams
The American psychologist and architect of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, Abraham Maslow, is credited with the expression, “If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” 1 We can extend Maslow’s observation to: “If all you have is a set of headphones, everything looks like a pair of ears.” As hearing care specialists, we are often so focused on the ears that we neglect the other pair of sensory organs staring right at us—the eyes. Indeed, the same demographic that experiences age-related hearing impairment (presbycusis), is likely to also experience age-related vision impairment (presbyopia). This coexistence of hearing and visual impairments is known as dual-sensory impairment, or DSI. Most of us are aware of the growing literature that supports a relationship between hearing loss and other health conditions, such as depression, falls, cognitive impairment, and dementia. Age-related vision impairment has been associated with an increased risk of experiencing some of these same disorders. 2Figure 1: Trajectories of cognition scores by the presence of any sensory impairment in the 2015 China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study. Source: Rong, H., Lai, X., Jing, R., Wang, X., Fang, H., Mahmoudi, E. (2020). Association of sensory impairments with cognitive decline and depression among older adults in China. JAMA Network Open, 3(9):e2014186. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.14186HOW COMMON IS DSI? What we know about the prevalence of DSI largely depends on the measures used to identify it. Some prevalence data are based on objective measures such as audiometry or the Snellen chart, while others rely on self-reported or functional measures of hearing and vision impairment. One study conducted in the United States using objective measures 3 estimated the prevalence of DSI in older adults at 3% increasing to 12% among those 85 years of age and older. WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES OF DSI? DSI has been associated with increased risks of dementia, depression, social anxiety, falls, and death. Given that either hearing or vision impairment increases the risks of many of the same disorders, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that DSI, compared with a single sensory impairment, may further increase the risks associated with these conditions. For example, investigators in South Korea followed over 6,500 individuals with DSI as part of a longitudinal study on cognitive aging and dementia. 4 At baseline, DSI was positively associated with dementia prevalence compared with those with normal sensory function. Over the six-year follow-up period, DSI was associated with higher odds of dementia incidence than hearing or visual impairment alone. In a similar study conducted in the United States, researchers followed over 7,500 Medicare beneficiaries who self-reported vision or hearing impairment. 5 Data collected after seven years indicated that those with DSI were at greater risk for developing dementia than those with hearing or vision impairmen
与单独的视力或听力障碍相比,DSI似乎与更大的全因死亡率相关。AGES-Reykjavik研究10涉及4900多名冰岛人,他们参加了一项大型流行病学研究,他们在2002年至2006年期间接受了听力检查,并在2009年之前对他们的死亡率进行了前瞻性随访。结果表明,听力损失或视力受损的人比没有听力或视力受损的人死于心血管疾病的风险更高;患有DSI的人比那些只有听力或视力障碍的人有更高的死亡率。同样,Tan等人11对听力损失和DSI与死亡率之间关系的研究进行了系统回顾。研究人员分析了符合纳入标准的27项研究的结果(14项回顾性研究和13项前瞻性研究设计,共1,213,756名参与者)。他们的分析显示,与那些听力和视力正常的人相比,DSI的参与者有明显更高的风险(即风险比;HR)的全因死亡率(HR = 1.40, 95% CI = 1.30 - 1.51),特别是心血管死亡率(HR = 1.86, 95% CI = 1.31 - 2.65)。将多感觉障碍的后果扩展到其他模式(嗅觉和味觉,除了视觉和听觉),Liljas和同事发现,在英国老龄化纵向研究(2016年5月至2017年6月)的6147个样本中,随着感觉障碍的数量增加,生活质量下降,抑郁症增加。毫不奇怪,那些报告有三到四种感觉障碍的人经历了最差的生活质量。dsi对听力保健专业人员的影响是什么?您的老年患者可能患有多种慢性疾病,因此请考虑以下问题:更新您的摄入表格,包括与听力和视力障碍相关的合并症。询问你的病人最近一次检查眼睛或更新眼镜处方是什么时候。检查你的病人是否有视力障碍。让你的老年病人大声朗读一些东西(例如,从你的病人教育手册或助听器使用手册中的一个样本)。与你所在社区的视力保健专家发展和建立关系。继续了解与听力、视力和双感官损伤相关的慢性疾病,包括认知障碍、抑郁、焦虑和跌倒。
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A Closer Look at Hearing Loss, Dementia, and Stigma 仔细研究听力损失、痴呆和耻辱感
Pub Date : 2023-05-24 DOI: 10.1097/01.hj.0000938616.47591.bf
Jan Blustein, Barbara E. Weinstein, Joshua Chodosh
We’ve all had these conversations. A family member asks us, “What’s all this talk about hearing loss and dementia?” A patient comes to our clinic and says, “I heard if I get a hearing aid, I will not get dementia.” Perhaps they’ve seen a headline claiming that “hearing loss is a major risk factor for dementia” in The Washington Post1 or heard an interview on National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition Sunday explaining that hearing loss “actually affect(s) the brain’s structural integrity.” 2 Other major news outlets have run similar stories 3,4, leading many to wonder: has hearing loss already damaged my brain? Am I destined to develop dementia?www.shutterstock.com.We recently wrote an article that critiqued these media reports. Our article was published in a geriatrics journal. Given the favorable reader response we have chosen to share our thoughts with our community of hearing health care professionals. The primary point we wish to convey is that messages like “hearing loss is a risk factor for dementia” need to be changed. Not only is such messaging confusing, but such messages are also prone to stigmatize and worry people with hearing loss. We should add as well that most scientists agree that the evidence to date is unsettled. CONFUSION ABOUT RISK The message that hearing loss is “the largest potentially modifiable risk factor for dementia” comes from an epidemiologic analysis that appeared in The Lancet in 2017 and 2020. 5 The reports were primarily based on studies in which people with various degrees of hearing loss (but without cognitive impairment at the start of the study) were followed over several years. In each of the studies, people with greater hearing loss at the outset were more likely to perform poorly on cognitive tests over time. Their cognitive dysfunction was severe enough to be labeled “dementia” more often than the dysfunction found in people who did not have hearing loss at the outset. Based on the studies reviewed, a set of distinguished epidemiologists declared that hearing loss is a leading “risk factor” for dementia. But “risk” and “risk factor” have special meanings in epidemiology. Unlike in everyday English (where “risk” suggests a cause of something bad) epidemiologic risk is only about co-occurrence, or correlation. But as we all probably learned during our undergraduate or graduate studies, correlation is not causation. In other words, saying that hearing loss is a risk factor for dementia does not mean that hearing loss causes dementia. SCIENTIFIC UNCERTAINTY ABOUT THE UNDERLYING CAUSE It is important to realize that after many years of research there is very little known about the causes of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and AD-related dementias (AD/ADRD). Given our general ignorance, it is not surprising that we lack a scientific understanding about whether and how hearing loss might be involved. Four possible explanations have been advanced. 6 The first points to the social isolation that accompanies hearing loss,
根据我们的经验,当人们被告知“听力损失是痴呆症最常见的可预防的风险因素”时,他们并不理解流行病学意义上的“风险”。他们用自然的、日常的语言来解释风险,这表明他们患痴呆症的可能性很高。他们很担心。有些人很害怕。在阅读了我们之前发表的文章后,一位听力受损的朋友写道,得知自己不会患上痴呆症,她感到无比欣慰。在她看来,媒体上的报道是在说她“不太可能躲过痴呆症这颗子弹”。公众普遍认为,听力损失预示着痴呆症,这对听力损失的人来说是毁灭性的,他们可能在工作场所受到更大的歧视和社会排斥。例如,如果你(错误地)理解听力损失预示着痴呆症,你会雇佣一个戴助听器的老年人吗?你想让你丧偶的母亲嫁给一个听力有障碍的人吗?为什么听力损失可能与认知能力下降有关我们知道,更好的听力可以帮助人们思考、记忆和学习。但有些人随着年龄的增长,不幸地注定会患上痴呆症。随着研究的深入,如果这些人也有听力障碍,他们的认知症状会更严重,因为听力在思考、记忆和学习中很重要。目前对助听器的随机试验被描述为测试听力损失是否会导致痴呆症,或者助听器是否可以预防痴呆症。我们认为这是一种错误的描述。如果那些接受助听器的人在随访中表现得更好,随着时间的推移,更多的人越过了被标记为“痴呆症”的门槛,我们是否可以得出这样的结论:听力损失会导致痴呆症,或者助听器可以预防痴呆症?我们不这么认为。一个同样合理的解释是,助听器可以帮助那些因不同原因(神经病理)而注定患上痴呆症的人控制认知障碍。对于那些注定会患上痴呆症的人来说,助听器可能会改善他们的听力,可能会减少倾听的努力和疲劳;这些都是非常重要的好处,但这些好处与“预防痴呆症”截然不同。让我们选择一个积极的信息如果公众明白听力丧失或听觉处理困难是痴呆症的先兆,那么一些事情可能会发生。政策制定者可能会努力改善获得听力保健的机会。初级保健医生可能会对患者进行听力损失筛查。人们可能更倾向于寻求治疗。那太好了!但我们同意我们的一位同事的观点,他在阅读我们最近的出版物后写信给我们:“我们成为听力学家,帮助听力损失的人寻求帮助。而不是吓唬他们屈服。”我们在临床工作中都见证了更好的听力带来的巨大好处。但我们不能把我们的设备作为“痴呆症预防器”来销售,部分原因是我们还不清楚它们到底是什么。事实上,它们远不止这些:我们已经看到它们帮助人们更好地倾听,更好地思考,更感激生活。当我们谈论助听器和人工耳蜗对认知的好处时,让我们给出一个积极的信息,比如“听力更好有助于你更好地思考。”我们不要混淆视听,也不要夸大事实。让我们不要给听力损失群体污名化。在任何年龄,更好的听力对任何人都有好处。让我们转向积极信息的哲学。
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Programmatic Approach to Hearing Health in Low- and Middle-Income Countries 低收入和中等收入国家的听力健康规划方法
Pub Date : 2023-05-24 DOI: 10.1097/01.hj.0000938628.78258.4a
Ben Sebothoma, Katijah Khoza-Shangase
Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) continue to experience the highest incidence of hearing loss. 1 With the incidence of hearing loss projected to reach approximately 2.5 billion globally in the next couple of decades 2, LMICs may bear the highest burden of this proportion. Within the South African context, various risk factors, which form part of the quadruple burden of diseases such as the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) 3,4, diabetes 5, tuberculosis (TB) 6, and hypertension 7 increase the risk of hearing loss, with COVID-19 having potentially added to this challenge. 8 Ntlhakana et al. 9 found that the combined effects of risk factors increase the risk of hearing loss in South African mine workers, with Khoza-Shangase 10 comprehensively discussing these risk factors for this important sector of the South African economy while arguing for their contextualization.www.shutterstock.com. Golden Rules, audiologists, cochlear implants, hearing aids, OTC.Despite the ever-increasing prevalence of hearing loss in LMICs, such as South Africa, established hearing protocols such as hearing screening do not seem to have improved access to ear and hearing health care to a wider population in these regions. Prevalence of hearing loss remains underreported, thus negatively influencing governmental obligation to provide equitable resources and focus to hearing health care programs. 11 Extreme shortages of ear and hearing health practitioners 12–14, and limited healthcare institutions that provide hearing healthcare services, with preventive ear and hearing care measures taking a back seat 13,15, exacerbate the rapid increase of hearing loss in LMICs. Given that approximately 80% of the South African population, for example, access health through the government funded public health sector, patients who experience ear and hearing related symptoms may not have sufficient access to services due to contextual realities including financial challenges such as transportation money to access health care centres, as well as the general population’s limited awareness of the existence of hearing health care practitioners as a profession. 16,17 The shortage of hearing health practitioners seen through capacity versus demand challenges and the general lack of resources form part of the dilapidated health care system, which lacks the capabilities to deal with most health problems. 18 The strained health care system, at the expense of quality of life, tends to prioritize life-threatening conditions, which hearing loss does not fall under. It is therefore not surprising that some preventive audiological programs such as the hearing conservation programs (HCPs) do not seem to yield positive outcomes of zero ear harm due to excessive noise in mines 19, while early hearing detection and intervention (EHDI) and ototoxicity monitoring programs remain at infancy and developmental stages. 20–22 TELEAUDIOLOGY Teleaudiology emerged as a promising vehicle to deliver hearing heal
低收入和中等收入国家(LMICs)的听力损失发生率仍然最高。1在未来几十年,全球听力损失发生率预计将达到约25亿,中低收入国家可能承担这一比例的最高负担。在南非,构成人类免疫缺陷病毒(艾滋病毒)、糖尿病、结核病和高血压等疾病四重负担一部分的各种风险因素增加了听力损失的风险,而COVID-19可能会加剧这一挑战。8 Ntlhakana等人9发现,风险因素的综合影响增加了南非矿工听力损失的风险,Khoza-Shangase 10全面讨论了南非经济这一重要部门的这些风险因素,同时提出了其背景。www.shutterstock.com。黄金法则,听力学家,人工耳蜗,助听器,非处方药。尽管听力损失在中低收入国家(如南非)的流行率不断上升,但听力筛查等既定的听力方案似乎并没有改善这些地区更广泛人口获得耳部和听力保健的机会。听力损失的患病率仍然被低估,从而对政府提供公平资源和关注听力保健计划的义务产生了负面影响。11耳部和听力保健从业人员极度短缺12-14,提供听力保健服务的保健机构有限,预防性耳部和听力保健措施处于次要地位13,15,加剧了中低收入国家听力损失的迅速增加。例如,大约80%的南非人口通过政府资助的公共卫生部门获得保健服务,由于环境现实,包括前往保健中心的交通费等财务挑战,以及普通民众对听力保健从业人员作为一种职业的认识有限,出现耳部和听力相关症状的患者可能无法充分获得服务。16,17从能力与需求的挑战来看,听力保健从业人员的短缺和资源的普遍缺乏构成了破败的卫生保健系统的一部分,该系统缺乏处理大多数健康问题的能力。紧张的卫生保健系统以牺牲生活质量为代价,往往优先考虑危及生命的疾病,而听力损失不属于这些疾病。因此,一些预防性听力学项目,如听力保护项目(HCPs)似乎并没有产生由于矿山过度噪音而对耳朵造成零伤害的积极结果19,而早期听力检测和干预(EHDI)和耳毒性监测项目仍处于婴儿期和发育阶段,这并不奇怪。20-22电视听力学电视听力学作为一种有前途的工具出现,为更大的人口提供听力卫生保健,缓解了听力卫生保健从业人员极度短缺的能力与需求的挑战。Khoza-Shangase和Moroe 23强烈鼓励在南非矿业范围内使用电视听力学,以减轻与获取有关的挑战。远程听力学服务意味着听力保健从业人员可以远程为患者提供听力学护理。由于患者不必长途跋涉去看专业医生,这种技术似乎解决了与长途跋涉和就诊相关的费用问题,而且它还开放了对人力资源的访问,超出了需要服务的地区的界限——因此,例如,只要有训练有素和规范的患者现场协调员,南非的患者可以由南非以外的听力学家来看病。研究已经探索并表明,远程听力学可用于提供大多数听力学服务,包括中耳评估、听力评估、助听器安装、人工耳蜗规划,以及提供听力康复和咨询。26 .显然,远程听力学为改善获得保健的机会带来了一些希望。然而,就其本身而言,如果没有战略应用,远程听力学提供服务的模式可能无法实现其目标;特别是在南非的现实背景下。对中低收入国家远程听力学的进一步研究表明,这种模式遵循了提供听力保健的相同传统方法,这种方法在现有的医疗保健计划之外和/或平行发挥作用。27 .在南非,目前提供耳部和听力保健的方法仍然主要是由国立医院的独立听力学诊所或私人诊所或房间的私人诊所组成。 例如,Khoza-Shangase一直主张在南非的四重疾病负担范围内对耳毒性评估和监测采取规划方法21,28,29,例如,在南非,听科学是该国所有艾滋病毒/艾滋病和结核病规划的一部分,因此预算属于“危及生命的情况”预算;因此,可以增加所有预防性听力学倡议的可获得性和可持续性。因此,提供听力保健的传统方法效果较差,这是由于国家政府采用的疾病负担优先预算分配方法——听力损失被视为不危及生命,因此对其他情况的重视程度较低。在南非等国家,卫生资源分配不公平,听力健康得到的资源很少,而诸如普遍新生儿听力筛查计划等行之有效的方法并不是政府强制要求的。缺乏技术进步的基础设施发展,以及缺乏培训和/或患者现场助理员的可用性也阻碍了远程听力学发挥最佳作用。考虑到低收入和中等收入国家的听力健康往往只得到很少的资源,并优先考虑重大疾病负担(例如,南非的疾病负担是四倍),这继续影响耳部和听力保健的提供。因此,另一种保健模式可以利用被认为是优先事项的已分配资源的保健举措,从而实现相对公平的资源分享,这可能是有用的,特别是对听力健康而言。因此,目前的作者认为,耳部和听力保健的程序化方法,其中耳部和听力健康构成现有健康计划的一部分,可能是一个有用的选择。规划方法是一种鼓励不同卫生规划在同一保护伞下发挥作用并共享资源的模式。考虑到一个有计划的方法来医疗保健可能允许不同的医疗保健计划,如学校健康计划;预防艾滋病毒母婴传播;儿童免疫规划、孕产妇、儿童和妇女保健和营养(妇幼保健和营养);艾滋病毒宣传方案;以病房为基础的初级卫生保健外联等已经列入预算,已纳入监测,并已被各种专业人员和辅助专业人员所接受,这种方法可能是一种具有成本效益和负责任的替代方法,可以改善服务的提供。这可能会更有成效,因为它可能允许使用任务转移,其中已经存在的辅助专业人员可以利用听力学家作为项目经理,从而解决能力与需求的挑战。Khoza-Shangase 31认为,耳部和听力保健从业人员必须将注意力和资源投入到针对疾病负担的健康项目和获得卫生部门支持的健康项目上,从而获得更好的资源和可持续发展,以实现有关耳部健康和功能的预防结果。夏皮罗和加洛维茨认为,程序化的方法可以使多个项目在同一保护伞下运作。目前的作者认为,一个程序化的方法来听力健康是最好的和替代的解决方案,特别是在资源有限的环境。这种方法可能不仅在资源方面有所帮助,而且还可以加强跨学科合作,改善预防保健。再加上远程听力学,这种方法将在这些情况下加强耳部和听力保健。
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Manufacturers News 制造商的新闻
Pub Date : 2023-03-30 DOI: 10.1097/01.hj.0000927356.49471.90
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Manufacturers News 制造商的新闻
Pub Date : 2023-02-23 DOI: 10.1097/01.hj.0000922316.06126.7d
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Manufacturers News 制造商的新闻
Pub Date : 2023-01-25 DOI: 10.1097/01.hj.0000919808.96049.b6
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