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oapen-20.500.12657-598682024-03-27T14:15:05Z Preventive audiology Khoza-Shangase, Katijah Sebothoma, Ben Govender, Samantha Joubert, Karin Kanji, Amisha Moroe, Nomfundo Floweret Masuku, Khetsiwe P. Maluleke, Ntsako Patrick Ntlhakana, Liepollo Khoza-Shangase, Katijah audiology thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MJ Clinical and internal medicine::MJP Otorhinolaryngology (ENT)::MJPD Audiology and otology This book is an original scholarly book that introduces the concept of preventive audiology, with a specific focus on the African context, which is in line with the South African re-engineered primary healthcare strategy as well as the World Health Organisation’s approach. The book reflects on contextually relevant and responsive evidence-based perspectives, grounded in an African context on preventive audiology, in four major ear and hearing burdens of disease within the South African context: (1) early hearing detection and intervention, (2) middle ear pathologies, (3) ototoxicity, and (4) noise-induced hearing loss. The book represents innovative research, seen from both a South African and global perspective. It offers new discourse and argues for a paradigm shift in how audiology is theorised and performed, particularly in low-and-middle-income country contexts. The goal of this book is to motivate a paradigm shift in how the ear and hearing care is approached within this low-and-middle-income country context while arguing for Afrocentric best practice evidence that leads to next practice. 2022-12-07T09:41:12Z 2022-12-07T09:41:12Z 2022 book 9781776342457 9781776342464 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/59868 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International BK209-Web PDF.pdf AOSIS 10.4102/aosis.2022.BK209 10.4102/aosis.2022.BK209 d7387d49-5f5c-4cd8-8640-ed0a752627b7 9781776342457 9781776342464 372 open access
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This book is an original scholarly book that introduces the concept of preventive audiology, with a specific focus on the African context, which is in line with the South African re-engineered primary healthcare strategy as well as the World Health Organisation’s approach. The book reflects on contextually relevant and responsive evidence-based perspectives, grounded in an African context on preventive audiology, in four major ear and hearing burdens of disease within the South African context: (1) early hearing detection and intervention, (2) middle ear pathologies, (3) ototoxicity, and (4) noise-induced hearing loss. The book represents innovative research, seen from both a South African and global perspective. It offers new discourse and argues for a paradigm shift in how audiology is theorised and performed, particularly in low-and-middle-income country contexts. The goal of this book is to motivate a paradigm shift in how the ear and hearing care is approached within this low-and-middle-income country context while arguing for Afrocentric best practice evidence that leads to next practice.
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