On World Hearing Day, March 3, Oticon joins with the World Health Organization (WHO) in a global call for action to address hearing loss that underlines the importance of hearing health throughout a lifetime.
The main purpose of the guidelines is to provide recommendations for protecting human health from exposure to environmental noise originating from various sources such as transportation noise (road traffic, railways, and aircrafts), wind turbine noise, and leisure noise.
According to the survey, 16% of NYC residents over 18 that participated in the study reported that they suffer from hearing loss. Even though hearing problems often impact elderly people, hearing loss and tinnitus are increasingly becoming more prevelant among young people.