2022 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Virtual Conference
March 13 - 15, 2022
10/13/2017 | 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM | The Impact of Globalization on Ear Care and Hearing health in sub-Saharan Africa | West Ballroom at Shalala Student Services Building
The Impact of Globalization on Ear Care and Hearing health in sub-Saharan Africa
Many studies have linked the effect of globalization to public health, especially in developing countries but none has been able to elucidate the phenomenon’s effect on Hearing health exclusively. In this paper, we sought to examine the impact of globalization on ear care and Hearing health in sub-Saharan Africa by utilizing the conceptual framework of globalization and population health. We described the effect, globalization and increasingly interlinked world have on ear care and Hearing health in sub-Saharan African countries.
We began by analyzing the impact of globalization on access to ear care and hearing health, then examined how globalization affects ear care and hearing health of people living in sub-Saharan Africa. We utilized institutional, economic, socio-cultural and environmental factors and the contextual, distal and proximal determinants of the conceptual framework for the analysis.
We enumerated the indirect effects of globalization on hearing health, such as economic and educational status. As well as more direct effects on population-level and individual risk factors for hearing health and on the health care system such as immunization, antenatal care recreational noises, loud machinery and cultural practices.
We concluded with the investigation of potential public health and policy approaches to reversing the negative and optimizing the positive impacts of globalization in advancing the cause of ear care and hearing health in sub-Saharan Africa.
- • Discuss the meaning and components of globalization
- Evaluate the potential effects of globalization on ear care and Hearing health globally and the specific effects in sub-Saharan Africa • Analyze how globalization affects ear care and hearing health indirectly through improved immunization rate, Antenatal care, westernized culture of listening to loud music and INGOs working in the field of hearing health.
- • Propose potential public health policies and measures to reduce the impact of globalization on ear care and hearing health in sub-Sahara Africa
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Presenters/Authors
Luqman Lawal
(), Starkey Hearing Foundation/ University of Minnesota SPH, Luqman_Lawal@starkeyfoundation.org;
Luqman Lawal MD, MPH is a Public health Physician who serves as the Director of Global health and Research at the Starkey Hearing Foundation.
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Isaac Mucharia
(), University of Nairobi, immuthure@gmail.com;
Professor of ENT surgery
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Titus Ibekwe
(), University of Abuja, Nigeria, ibekwets@yahoo.com;
Titus S.IBEKWE MD,FWACS, FMCORL, FICS is an Associate Professor of Otorhinolaryngology in the College of Health Sciences University of Abuja and an Honorary Consultant at the UNIABUJA Teaching Hospital. His field of interest is on Preventable Hearing Loss and Infectious Diseases. Titus has over 40 publications in local and international journals to his credit. An advocacy of good clinical practice and Legislation, he is currently the National Vice President of Nigerian Medical Association, Chairman Legislative committee of the same body & members Infectious disease Committee of the American Academy of Otorhinolaryngolgy Head & Neck Foundation.
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Wakisa Mulwafu
(), University of Malawi, College of Medicine, wmulwafu2@gmail.com;
ENT Surgeon and the Chairman of the Malawi Hearing health Strategic Plan Committeee.
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