国外配戴助听器的情况

优利康技术 · 发表于 2009-7-13 09:19

数以百万计的听损人士受益于助听器

6个欧洲人中有1人可以受益于助听器，而在美国超过3100万人有听力损失。
16%的欧洲人因听力问题而感到困惑并且影响到他们的日常生活，这一比例高出先前估算的10%。
在欧洲，大概7100万年龄在18-80岁之间的成年人的平均听力损失超过25dB，这一听力损伤数字的精确性得到世界卫生组织WHO的认可。该数据报道在“听力损失的社会和经济成本”论文中，由London’s South Bank University大学的科学家们完成调查。
Sergei Kochkin，美国听力问题专家，进行过各种各样的社会调查，包括听力损失的美国人和他们使用助听器的情况。
在2005年的调查中，他发现：
超过3100万美国人，占总人口的10.5%，有各种类型的听力损失。
他们中超过2400万没有配戴助听器。
仅有23.5%的弱听人士真正在配戴、使用助听器。
英国皇家研究院聋康中心研究发现，870万英国人有不同程度的听力损失，其中仅有四分之一弱听的英国人拥有一台助听器。

Millions would benefit from hearing aids
One in six Europeans would benefit from using hearing aids. In the US, more than 31 million people are hearing impaired.
Sixteen percent of adult Europeans suffer from hearing loss great enough to adversely affect their daily life. This is significantly higher than the previously generally assumed prevalence of 10 percent.
In Europe, about 71 million adults aged between 18 and 80 years have a hearing loss greater than 25 dB, the definition of hearing impairment recognised by the World Health Organisation, WHO. The data was reported in “Evaluation of the Social and Economic Costs of Hearing Impairment”, based on a survey carried out by scientists at.
Sergei Kochkin, an American hearing expert, has carried out various studies, the MarkeTrak Surveys, of hearing impaired Americans and their use of hearing aids.
In his 2005 survey, MarkeTrak VII, he found that:
More than 31 million Americans, 10.5 percent of the population, were hearing impaired.
More than 24 million of them did not have a hearing aid.
Only about 23.5 percent of hearing impaired Americans actually use hearing aids.

The Royal National Institute for Deaf People, RNID, in the UK, has found that there are 8.7 million deaf and hard of hearing people in the UK. Just one in four hearing impaired Britons owns a hearing aid.