Accession Number:

AD1013099

Title:

Active Duty - U.S. Army Noise Induced Hearing Injury Surveillance, Calendar Years 2008-2012

Descriptive Note:

Technical Report,01 Jan 2008,31 Dec 2012

Corporate Author:

US Army Public Health Command Gunpowder United States

Personal Author(s):

• Helfer,Thomas
• Beamer,Sharon
• Deaver,Karen
• Hall,Shane

Report Date:

2014-03-03

Pagination or Media Count:

26.0

Abstract:

The Department of Defense DODDoD Hearing Conservation Working Group, the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center AFHSC, the Army Institute of Public Health of the U.S. Army Public Health Command, and the DOD Hearing Center of Excellence collaborated to develop new DOD and individual Services Noise-Induced Hearing InjuryNIHI surveillance data summaries. The purposes of these NIHI data summaries areas follows To present and summarize available Army medical surveillance data for use in NIHI prevention program and policy planning, includingDefining the relative impact of NIHI among U.S. Army Active Duty personnel in the total Army and at individual Army installations, Providing Army 5-year injury rates and trends, Identifying demographics most closely associated with NIHI incidence. Monitor progress-based metrics for reducing the NIHI morbidity burden overtime.

Descriptors:

• hearing loss
• public health
• military personnel
• preventive medicine
• deployment
• active duty
• injury prevention
• audiometry
• army
• Combat noise
• Surveillance

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Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE