Hearing

2010 ◽  
pp. 4865-4870
Author(s):  
Linda M Luxon
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Sensorineural Hearing Loss ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Adult Population ◽  
World Health ◽  
External Ear ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

Hearing loss is the most common sensory impairment. The World Health Organization has estimated that at least 275 million people are affected worldwide, as are 17% of the adult population in the United Kingdom, three-quarters of these being over 60 years of age. Clinical examination and investigation—examination includes visual inspection of the anatomy of the external ear and tympanic membrane, and tuning-fork tests to distinguish conductive from sensorineural hearing loss in some cases. Audiological investigations (1) quantify audiometric thresholds at each frequency; (2) differentiate conductive from sensorineural defects; (3) differentiate ...

Hearing loss

2020 ◽  
pp. 5931-5936
Author(s):  
Linda Luxon
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Primary Prevention ◽  
Adult Population ◽  
World Health ◽  
External Ear ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

The World Health Organization has estimated that 360 million people worldwide are affected by disabling hearing loss, making hearing impairment—the hidden handicap frequently overlooked by all clinicians—the most common sensory impairment. Most of those affected are in low- and middle-income countries, but 17% of the adult population in the United Kingdom are affected, with three-quarters being over 60 years of age. Causes may relate to cochlear, neurological, general medical, or iatrogenic pathology, with half of all cases being preventable by primary prevention. Clinical examination includes visual inspection of the anatomy of the external ear and tympanic membrane, and tuning-fork tests, which may distinguish conductive from sensorineural hearing loss.

Principles of contraception

2010 ◽  
pp. 1262-1268
Author(s):  
John Guillebaud
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Side Effects ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
World Health ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
Continued Use ◽  
Health Organization

Continued use of any method of contraception is related directly to its acceptability. Advisers should be competent to give information about the efficacy, risks, side effects, advantages, disadvantages, and noncontraceptive benefits of each method. Ignorance, especially about conditions not yet evaluated by the World Health Organization or the United Kingdom Medical Eligibility Committee, should be admitted during consultations, in which the clinician and the user, or couple, should be on equal terms: a ‘consultation between two experts’....

Epidemiology and Health Statistics in the United Kingdom

1964 ◽  
Vol 03 (01) ◽  
pp. 29-32
Author(s):  
H. C. Ebbing
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
World Health ◽  
Health Statistics ◽  
Medical Statistics ◽  
Ministry Of Health ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

From 6 October to 8 December 1962 the writer of the present report visited medical authorities, universities, research institutes and statistics offices in Great Britain. The journey, which had been sponsored by the European Office of the World Health Organization, was carried out under the technical guidance of the British Ministry of Health. The General Register Office (GRO) for England and Wales welcomed the writer as a colleague and rendered assistance during his stay, while practical questions where handled by the British Council.Medical statistics are the concern of one General Register Office each for England and Wales, for Scotland, and for Northern Ireland. The Ministry of Health has a statistics division of its own.Medical statistics are conducted on a larger scale than in a number of other countries. The birth and death records are thoroughly evaluated from an anthropobiological angle. In addition to the statistics on physicians, nursing personnel and hospitals which are compiled in the United Kingdom there also exists a disease reporting system which inter aha includes morbidity statistics, too. A research project on the frequency of hereditary and congenital diseases is in preparation.The general interest in medical statistics and the value put on them are worthy of emphasis. Courses held for the medical officers of health provide for efficient statistical training. The scientific discipline, epidemiology and health statistics on the one hand and the possibilities of work and research in the field of official statistics on the other are judged in such a way that a number of aims which appear unattainable in Germany at the time being are regarded as natural prerequisites to an efficient health policy. It should be mentioned in this connexion that the recommendations of the World Health Organization and of the European Council have been based on the opportunities provided in the Anglo-Saxon countries.

Suicide in Scotland in Comparison with England and Wales

1972 ◽  
Vol 121 (560) ◽  
pp. 83-87
Author(s):  
Norman Kreitman
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
World Health ◽  
Official Statistics ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Suicide Rates ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
A Value ◽  
Health Organization

Over 70 years ago, Sibbald (1900) commented that the official statistics on suicide showed Scotland to have lower rates than England and Wales. It seems that Scotland has always been regarded as one of the countries with relatively few suicides. A recent World Health Organization publication (1968) commented on the official suicide rates in a sample of 20 different nations; among these Scotland ranked nineteenth in 1952–4. However, this picture appears to have been gradually changing over the last two decades, and the same W.H.O. publication, citing official statistics for the period 1961–3, quotes a value for Scotland which raises it to fifteenth in the list of 20 countries. Moreover, the Scottish rates and those for England and Wales have gradually come closer together over the last 20 years.The aim of this paper is to examine the trends in Scottish statistics for the last two decades and to compare the current suicide rates with those of the rest of the United Kingdom. All the data quoted are based on the publications of the Registrars General for Scotland and for England and Wales.

scholarly journals SEKOLAH KHUSUS / SLB MELATI CERIA SAMPIT

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 191-195
Author(s):  
Adi Wiratama Manaku ◽  
Dila Nadya Andini
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Design Principles ◽  
World Health ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

     ABSTRACT According to the World Health Organization (WHO), around 5% of the world's population - about 466 million people - is diagnosed with what they call 'crippling hearing loss'. Although these statistics are divided into several levels of the inability of hearing, partial or total (hearing loss or the deaf), the percentage of the whole is characterized by hearing loss more than 40dB for adults and more than 30dB for children. The reduction of the capacity hearing does require a certain way to experience the environment. With the approach design principles "DeafSpace", which is based on the knowledge of the built environment, largely constructed for the people who bothered pendengaranya, presenting a variety of challenges addressed by the Deaf in a certain way to change their environment to fit with its environment.  

Disability from chronic ear disease in Nepal assessed using the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 instrument

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
J Rudd ◽  
R Bohara ◽  
R Youngs ◽  
R W J Mcleod ◽  
H A Elhassan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Middle Ear ◽  
World Health ◽  
Disability Assessment ◽  
Ear Surgery ◽  
The World ◽  
Middle Ear Disease ◽  
Health Organization

Abstract Objective Globally, South Asia has the highest proportion of disabling hearing loss. There is a paucity of data exploring the associated hearing loss and disability caused by chronic middle-ear disease in South Asia in the setting of surgical outreach. This study aimed to measure disability using the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 in patients undergoing ear surgery for chronic middle-ear disease in an ear hospital in Nepal. Method The World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 was translated into Nepali and administered by interview to patients before ear surgery, and results were correlated with pre-operative audiograms. Results Out of a total of 106 patients with a mean age of 23 years, the mean World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 score was 17.7, and the highest domain scores were for domain 6 ‘participation in society’ at a score of 34. There was a positive correlation of World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2 score with hearing level (r = 0.46). Conclusion Patients with ear disease in Nepal have had their disability measured using the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0. Our study demonstrated a correlation between impaired hearing and disability in a surgical outreach context, which was an expected but not previously reported finding.

World Health Organization

1952 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 652-655
Keyword(s):  
World Health Organization ◽  
World Health ◽  
World Health Assembly ◽  
Plenary Meeting ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Food And Agriculture Organization ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Personnel Shortages

From May 5 to 22, 1952 the Fifth World Health Assembly met in Geneva. In his opening remarks, Dr. Leonard A. Scheele, president of the Fourth World Health Assembly, summarized events during the first four years of the World Health Organization and stressed the central importance of the problems of the education of public health and related personnel and personnel shortages to the accomplishment of WHO's aims.1 The remainder of the first plenary meeting was devoted to speeches by representatives of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the World Meteorological Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization, who stressed the need for cooperation between their respective organizations and WHO. Dr. Juan Salcedo (Philippines) was elected president by acclamation at the second plenary meeting. On May 6, the Assembly voted to admit the United Kingdom of Libya to membership in the organization, and on May 12, Tunisia and Morocco were admitted as associate members, subject to notice of acceptance of associate membership on their behalf.

scholarly journals The emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 204993612110243
Author(s):  
Adekunle Sanyaolu ◽  
Chuku Okorie ◽  
Aleksandra Marinkovic ◽  
Nafees Haider ◽  
Abu Fahad Abbasi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Respiratory Infections ◽  
World Health ◽  
Medical Community ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
Disease Spreading ◽  
Health Organization

Since emerging from Wuhan, China, in December of 2019, the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has been causing devastating severe respiratory infections in humans worldwide. With the disease spreading faster than the medical community could contain it, death tolls increased at an alarming rate worldwide, causing the World Health Organization to officially sanction the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak as a pandemic, leading to a state of worldwide lockdown for the majority of the year 2020. There have been reports of new strains of the virus emerging in various parts of the world, with some strains displaying even greater infectivity and transmissibility. Areas of the emerging variant of concern arise from countries like the United Kingdom, South Africa, Brazil, and India. These mutations carry a lineage from N501Y, D614G, N439K, Y453F, and others, which are globally dominated by clades 20A, 20B, and 20C. This literature review intends to identify and report SARS-CoV-2 variants that are currently evolving and their disease implications.

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