Dangerous Decibels

04/06/2023

A new study on the effectiveness of the Dangerous Decibels program in Brazil.

Purpose: The purpose of this article was to assess the effectiveness of the Dangerous Decibels (DD) program in students in the short- and medium-term follow-ups (up to 6 months), including an online game.

04/05/2023

Sad news from New Zealand. Our dear colleague, mentor and friend John Wallaart passed away last Friday. John was a tremendous advocate for worker safety during his career in the New Zealand Accident Compensation Corporation and an outstanding Dangerous Decibels educator. We send love and condolences to Jane and the family. We will remember John and his big, ever-present smile forever.

03/03/2022

March 3 is World Hearing Day.
Some links to celebrate the occasion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWQcFnJAhrw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNlXsRmXlGY
https://ialpasoc.info/other-resources/?id=233

Audiology committee of IALP invites you to celebrate World Hearing Day 2022 on 3rd of March Theme: To hear for life, listen with careProfessor William H Mart...

11/18/2021

Noisy Singapore????

https://www.mewatch.sg/watch/Talking-Point-2021-2022-E29-Thu-18-Nov-2021-Is-Noise-Making-Us-Sick-254677

05/09/2021

With the advent of smartphone apps, free or inexpensive sound level meters are within the reach of anyone. But sound level meters are a thing of the past.

03/04/2021

Some initial results from the Apple Hearing Health Study were released yesterday as part of the World Hearing Day. Nice effort Apple and University of Michigan (Rick Neitzel)! https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/02/apple-releases-results-from-hearing-health-study/?

Way back in 2019, Apple launched Research. The app was the latest effort by a company looking to take a more serious approach to user health, built (naturally) around data collected from the iPhone and Apple Watch. The app debuted with four studies: heart health, women’s health, movement and heari...

03/03/2021

Here's the link to the World Hearing Organization's (WHO) "World Report on Hearing". Dangerous Decibels is glad to be part of the global effort to prevent noise-induced hearing loss and tinnitus. https://apps.who.int/iris/rest/bitstreams/1334317/retrieve

03/03/2021

https://www.who.int/news-room/events/detail/2021/03/03/default-calendar/world-hearing-day-2021-hearing-care-for-all

World Hearing Day 2021 marks the launch of the World Report on Hearing, presenting a global call for action to address hearing loss and ear diseases across the life course. The theme of the World Hearing Day is Hearing care for ALL!Screen. Rehabilitate. Communicate

10/27/2020

https://www.who.int/news-room/events/detail/2020/11/03/default-calendar/webinar-glimpse-into-the-world-report-on-hearing-launch-of-world-hearing-day-advocacy-materials

The World Health Organization is pleased to invite you to join the webinar: Glimpse into the World Report on Hearing – launch of World Hearing Day advocacy materials The purpose of the webinar is to: Launch the World Hearing Day 2021 information products Inform about the World Report on Hearing an...

09/26/2019

Neanderthals, Eustachian tubes and extinction? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/neanderthals-may-have-been-wiped-out-by-ear-infections-scientists-say-complications-of-the-common-childhood-illness-could-have-triggered-mystery-extinction/ar-AAHAAaj?li=BBnbcA1

While antibiotics are taken for granted in the modern world, a lack of sophisticated medicine 40,000 years ago is believed to have seen the archaic species suffer and then perish.

09/24/2019

08/07/2019

As inscrições para o próximo Workshop do Dangerous Decibels Brasil para formação de novos educadores já estão abertas no site da Academia Brasileira de Audiologia - www.audiologiabrasil.org.br
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