Childhood deafness in the European community.
Childhood deafness in the European community.
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欧洲社会的儿童耳聋。
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1981
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A. Morgon
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J. A. Martin;O. Bentzen;J. Colley;D. Hennebert;C. Holm;S. Iurato;G. D. de Jonge;O. McCullen;M. L. Meyer;W. J. Moore;A. Morgon
This is a summary of a report which was the result of an epidemiological investigation, carried out under the sponsorship of the Commission for the European Communities (CEC) and its Committee on Medical and Public Health Research (CRM) in the nine countries of the European Community, in order to determine the prevalence of childhood deafness. The design of the study specified that all children born during the year 1969 would be included if their hearing loss averaged 50 dB or worse in the better ear. Most of the children were enumerated in 1977 when they were eight years old.The prevalence of the degree of deafness in the CEC was 0.9/1000 live births in 1969. There were more deaf children born in the winter than in the summer months. Perceptive hearing loss accounts for 92% of all the cases of deafness and Rubella was the largest single cause of the deafness where the aetiology was known. If perceptive deafness is considered as a whole, in 42% of the children no cause was reported. 29% of the children we...