the acceptability of hearing aids in people with presbyacusis has been improved but assessment of whether there is a need for more counseling to increase the number of regular hearing-aid users seems to be important. the aim of this study was to determine if the hearing aid was worn regularly and over a long period of time in people with presbyacusis. a questionnaire survey of patients with pre...

this study examined hearing loss prevalence and hearing aid usage rates among korean elders by comparing the differences between those with and without hearing loss, and between those who used and did not use hearing aids.this study was based on data collected during the korean national health and nutrition examination survey v (2010-2012). the study sample consisted of 5,447 koreans aged ≥60 y...

BACKGROUND Brazil is rapidly becoming an influential player in development cooperation, also thanks to its high-visibility health projects in Africa and Latin America. The 4th High-level Forum on Aid Effectiveness held in Busan in late 2011 marked a change in the way development cooperation is conceptualised. The present paper explores the issue of emerging donors' contribution to the post-Busa...

The Nihongo Tutorial System is an intelligent tutoring system designed to assist English-speaking scientists and engineers in acquiring reading proficiency in Japanese technical literature. The system provides individualized lessons by matching a student's technical area of interest and Japanese language ability with the available instructional materials which are derived from actual technical ...

Up from a certain degree of impairment motorand multiple disabled children rarely are able to use conventional environmental control and augmentative communication systems. To attain this ability, in many cases customer tailored user-interfaces plus a long-time training process is necessary. Even learning the relation between reason and effect and experiencing self-effectiveness (being able to ...

This article examines aid practice, that is, the public-private contractual networks that link donor governments, UN agencies, military establishments, NGOs, private companies and others, as a relation of global liberal governance. In order to fulfil this function, such networks embody what could be called the 'securitisation' of international assistance. Based upon ideas of human security and ...

The World Bank’s health sector projects in Timor-Leste—the Health Sector Rehabilitation and Development Project and the Second Health Sector Rehabilitation and Development Project— have been among the few successful operations it has funded in that country. This paper examines the factors underpinning their relative success and considers the wider lessons of the Bank’s experience for our unders...

At the UN High-Level Meeting on non-communicable diseases (NCD) in September 2011, each member state was challenged to create a multisectoral national policy and plan for the prevention and control of non-communicable disease by 2013. Few low-income countries, however, currently have such plans. Their governments are likely to turn for assistance in drafting and implementation to multilateral a...

The 2011 RAD-AID Conference on International Radiology for Developing Countries discussed data, experiences, and models pertaining to radiology in the developing world, where widespread shortages of imaging services significantly reduce health care quality and increase health care disparities. This white paper from the 2011 RAD-AID conference represents consensus advocacy of multidisciplinary s...

The speech-perception ability reported from profound hearing impaired persons using different technical aids: hearing aids, cochlear implants, or tactile aids, varies widely. A test-battery was constructed that consisted of segmental and suprasegmental tasks and speech tracking. Two presentation modalities were used, vision only and visual information supplemented with the assistive device. Dea...