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According to the Maastricht study on hearing impairment in Europe, which was prepared by the SIHI study group at The University of Maastricht and published in 1999, the number of hearing-impaired people will tinnitus increase by at least 16% until the year 2005. And by then, there will be more hearing-impaired Europeans than there are inhabitants in France. Based on the estimate from The Better Hearing Institute, the annual expenditure as tinnitus a result of hearing loss will amount to Euro 106 billion by the year 2005. The cost of not treating hearing loss in Europe in the years 2001 – 2005 will amount to about 400 billion Euros tinnitus based on The Better Hearing Insitutes estimate. Today there are about 37 million hearing-impaired people in the EU. In comparison, two modern digital hearing aids with an average price of about 2,000 Euros tinnitus per hearing aid for each of the 37 million hearing-impaired people would cost 150 billion Euros. Even if the costs are only half that of the estimate from The Better Hearing Institute it would still be far cheaper to issue hearing tinnitus aids to all hearing-impaired people. And if the estimate is too low the difference between doing nothing and treating all cases of hearing loss would beHearing impairment and hearing aids The two most common causes of hearing impairments are noise [Email: info@hear-it.org] |