Childhood hearing loss profile, decentralised screening and outcomes in the Western Cape public healthcare system, South Africa

Datasets underpinning PhD Thesis "Childhood hearing loss profile, decentralised screening and outcomes in the Western Cape public healthcare system, South Africa". It addresss barriers to timeous diagnoses of childhood hearing loss, improving access to hearing healthcare, and ultimately providing successful intervention with hearing technology in low-resourced contexts like South Africa. Children with additional disabilities require multi-disciplinary support to realize sufficient benefit from hearing aid use.

本数据集为博士学位论文《南非西开普省公共医疗体系中儿童听力损失特征、去中心化筛查与临床转归》提供支撑。该数据集旨在破解儿童听力损失及时诊断的各类障碍，提升听力医疗服务的可及性，并最终在南非等资源匮乏地区实现听力技术干预的良好效果。存在附加残疾的儿童需要多学科支持，方能从助听器使用中获得充分获益。