Competency information
Details
Review the evidence base and use your findings to identify the proportion of the UK population who experience hearing, tinnitus or balance disorders by age, gender and other sociodemographic measures and predict how this is likely to change over the next 20 years
Considerations
- Functional impact of acquired hearing loss on communication
- Impact of hearing loss on mental and physical health
- Impact of disability on opportunities for employment
- Disability Discrimination Act
- Epidemiological studies
- Public health publications
- Local demographic data
- Relevant national stat and voluntary publications
- Public health publications
- Local demographic data
- National census
- Rate at which hearing, tinnitus or balance disorders occur in the UK population by age, gender and other sociodemographic measures
Relevant learning outcomes
| # | Outcome |
|---|---|
| # 1 | Outcome Perform the range of methodologies, including statistical analysis, used in epidemiology to identify the prevalence and incidence of hearing, tinnitus and balance disorders and their relationship to relation to demographic characteristics |