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Modeling the Unites States government’s economic cost of noise-induced hearing loss for a military population

Author(s) -

Jennifer B. Tufts,

P. K. Weathersby,

Francisco A Rodriguez

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

scandinavian journal of work environment and health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1795-990X

pISSN - 0355-3140

DOI - 10.5271/sjweh.2911

Subject(s) - navy , noise induced hearing loss , population , noise (video) , hearing loss , audiology , medicine , statistics , environmental health , noise exposure , computer science , mathematics , geography , archaeology , artificial intelligence , image (mathematics)

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the feasibility and utility of developing economic cost models for noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL). First, we outline an economic model of NIHL for a population of US Navy sailors with an "industrial"-type noise exposure. Next, we describe the effect on NIHL-related cost of varying the two central model inputs--the noise-exposure level and the duration of exposure. Such an analysis can help prioritize promising areas, to which limited resources to reduce NIHL-related costs should be devoted.

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