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<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <font face="Verdana"> <CENTER><h5>Hear IT - preventing hearing loss noise hearing ‘Hear-it’ –A non-commercial website dealing with issues on hearing loss and hearing impairment</h5><br> <a href="http://www.german.hear-it.org"><img src="http://www.german.hear-it.org/search/pics/logo.jpg" ALT="Hear IT sensorineural hearing loss tinnitus use of hearing aids noise hearing buzzing ears noise ears hard of hearing children hard of hearing relatives bad hearing children and hearing loss" border="0"></a><br><br> <TABLE WIDTH="700" BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="2" CELLPADDING="0"> <TR> <TD WIDTH="0%" valign="top"><IMG SRC="http://www.german.hear-it.org/search/pics/web_p.gif" WIDTH=120 HEIGHT=120 ALT="Hear IT tinnitus use of hearing aids noise hearing buzzing ears noise ears hard of hearing children hard of hearing relatives bad hearing"> <H6>noise hearing</h6> <font face=Verdana size=1 color=#990000> ‘Hear-it’ –A non-commercial website dealing with issues on hearing loss and hearing impairment.</font><BR> <HR size=1 width=73% align=left noshade> <A HREF="http://www.german.hear-it.org/search/preventing_hearing_loss/index.html">[preventing hearing loss]</A><BR><BR> <A HREF="http://www.german.hear-it.org/search/poor_hearing/index.html">[noise hearing]</A><br><BR> <A HREF="http://www.german.hear-it.org/search/sensorineural_hearing_loss/index.html">[sensorineural hearing loss]</A><BR><BR> <A HREF="http://www.german.hear-it.org/search/tinnitus/index.html">[tinnitus]</A><BR><BR> <A HREF="http://www.german.hear-it.org/search/buzzing_ears/index.html">[buzzing ears]</A><BR><BR> <A HREF="http://www.german.hear-it.org/search/noise hearing/index.html">[noise hearing]</A><BR><BR> <font><A HREF="http://www.german.hear-it.org">[HOME]</A><br> </TD> <TD WIDTH="70%" valign="top"> <div align="left"> that in the EU 37 million would benefit from using hearing aids. The Maastricht report about hearing impairment, which was written by the SIHI study group at The University of Maastricht and published in 1999, estimates that noise hearing only about 9 million out of 37 million hearing-impaired people have sought help, and that only 5 million people in the EU actually use hearing aids.<BR><BR> The Royal National Institute for Deaf People, RNID, in the noise hearing UK has found that there are 8.7 million deaf and hard of hearing people in the UK.<BR><BR> About 2 million people in the UK own hearing aids, but only 1.4 million use them regularly.<BR><BR> noise hearing Just one out of five owns a hearing aid<BR> Four out of five who actually need a hearing aid, do not own one.<BR><BR> Sergei Kochkin, an American hearing expert, has noise hearing carried out various analyses of American hearing-impaired people and their use of hearing aids (The MarkeTrak Surveys).<BR> In 1997, there were more than 27 million hearing-impaired people in the United States. 21.7 million of these did not own a hearing aid. This noise hearing means that only about 20% of hearing-impaired people actually use hearing aids.<BR><BR> For people of working age, the figures are even worse. Nine million hearing-impaired people between the age of 34 and 54 do not own a hearing aid, while only<br><br><A HREF="mailto:info@hear-it.org">[Email: info@hear-it.org]</A><br><br></div> aaltazxgnoise hearing </TD> </TR> </font> </TABLE> </CENTER> </BODY>