Preventive audiology An African perspective

• Main Author: Khoza-Shangase, Katijah (auth, Editor)
• Other Authors: Sebothoma, Ben (auth), Govender, Samantha (auth), Joubert, Karin (auth), Kanji, Amisha (auth), Moroe, Nomfundo Floweret (auth), Masuku, Khetsiwe P. (auth), Maluleke, Ntsako Patrick (auth), Ntlhakana, Liepollo (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: AOSIS 2022
• Subjects: Audiology & otology; audiology
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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.