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Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Prevention of Hearing Impairments in Latin America

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Latin America (LA) have a surface of almost 1/7 of the earth and its population is over 500 million (Fig.1). It is a region with common roots, homogeneous culture, same health and educational infrastructure, similar problems and above all, the same or almost the same (Spanish/Portuguese) language. That is the reason to show the impact of hearing impairments (HI) as a health problem from the medical, social, educational, economical and cultural points of view in LA.

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  1. General Hospital of Mexico, Mexico

    Pedro Berruecos MD

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  1. Kamio Memorial Foundation, 101-0063, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan

    Jun-Ichi Suzuki MD (President of Hearing International Japan) (President of Hearing International Japan)

  2. Department of Otolaryngology, Teikyo University Ichihara Hospital, 299-0111, Ichihara, Chiba, Japan

    Takeo Kobayashi MD (Visiting Professor) (Visiting Professor)

  3. ENT Department, National Children’s Hospital, 157-8535, Setagaya-ku Tokyo, Japan

    Keijiro Koga MD (Former Head) (Former Head)

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Berruecos, P. (2004). Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Prevention of Hearing Impairments in Latin America. In: Suzuki, JI., Kobayashi, T., Koga, K. (eds) Hearing Impairment. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-68397-1_92

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