Unmet hearing health care needs: The beaver dam offspring study

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 103, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1134-1139

  Nash, Scott D ^a   Cruickshanks, Karen J ^a,b   Huang, Guan Hua ^c   Klein, Barbara E K ^b   Klein, Ronald ^b   Nieto, F Javier ^a   Tweed, Theodore S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY REHABILITATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HEARING AID; HEARING DISORDER; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL NOISE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; CORRECTION OF HEARING IMPAIRMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES; HEARING AIDS; HEARING DISORDERS; HEARING TESTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NOISE, OCCUPATIONAL; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX FACTORS; WISCONSIN; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84878099283     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2012.301031     Document Type: Article

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