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Abstract
About 3% of a population needs audiologic treatment, which in Denmark is performed through three hearing rehabilitation centers with a full-time staff of otologists, teachers, engineers, technicians and social-workers handling (free of charge) about 7000 new patients a year in close cooperation with about 100 local schoolteachers trained in teaching lip-reading, hearing training and speech-correction.
The average total cost per patient including the hearing aid (supposed to last for 5 years) corresponds to 5 days in a hospital.
Severe cases are transferred to a special training school for adult interns in Fredericia.
The training of children below 7 years of age is carried out by a special children's guidance clinic.
Effective prophylaxis will according to our statistics reduce the number of hard of hearing patients by one third.