Public health policy-making for hearing loss: stakeholders' evaluation of a novel eHealth tool.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hearing loss (HL) affects 466 million people of all ages worldwide, with a rapidly increasing prevalence, and therefore requires appropriate public health policies. Multi-disciplinary approaches that make use of eHealth services can build the evidence to influence public policy. The European Union-funded project EVOTION developed a platform that is fed with real-time data from hearing aids, a smartphone, and additional clinical data and makes public health policy recommendations based on hypothetical public health policy-making models, a big data engine and decision support system. The present study aimed to evaluate this platform as a new tool to support policy-making for HL.

Methods

A total of 23 key stakeholders in the United Kingdom, Croatia, Bulgaria and Pola

SUBMITTER: Dritsakis G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7596974 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature