Release online self-help hearing test program

At present, the number of patients with disability hearing loss in the world is about 466 million, accounting for more than 5% of the global population, including 432 million adults and 34 million children. WHO estimates that more than 900 million people will suffer from disability hearing loss by 2050. More seriously, nearly half of the world's 12 to 35-year-olds (ie 1.1 billion people) are at risk of hearing loss because they often wear headphones.

In addition to congenital hearing impairment, healthy people also face a greater risk of hearing loss in modern lifestyles. Yang Jun, director of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Xinhua Hospital, said that in recent years, young cases of hearing loss in the clinic have gradually increased, and there have been young patients who have worn headphones for one night and can not hear the next day. Deafness overnight is only an extreme case. The hearing loss of more people is a process of slow increase, which is not easy to be noticed. Most people will not think of going to the hospital to screen their hearing.

As a hearing and treatment center for hearing impairment in Shanghai, Shanghai Xinhua Hospital hopes that people with more hearing loss can find early, diagnose early, and intervene early. The public only needs to pay attention to the “Shanghai Xinhua Hospital” WeChat public number, and then they can find the “medical strategy”. The self-test hearing aid, a preliminary screening aid, takes 2 minutes to complete the evaluation. At present, this small program has not been very accurate, but as a preliminary screening aid, it can very easily remind the public to care about their hearing health.