World Hearing Day 2022: History, Theme, and Significance
Ahmedabad: World Hearing Day is held on March 3 annually to promote awareness about deafness and hearing loss prevention. It’s also been discovered that it promotes ear and hearing health all over the world. The World Health Organisation (WHO) chooses a subject every year and creates materials such as brochures, flyers, posters, banners, and presentations to help people learn more about the event.
History
The World Hearing Day was first marked by the WHO on March 3, 2007. They declared this day to be World Hearing Day in 2016. Before that, it was known as International Ear Care Day. Communication is a basic human right, yet it may be challenging for individuals with disabilities and diseases to connect. 360 million individuals worldwide suffer from hearing loss that is debilitating. People will benefit from being educated and taught about their rights.
Theme
This year the theme for World Hearing Day is – to hear for life, listen with care, according to the WHO. The organisation will emphasise on the significance and showcase methods for preventing hearing loss through safe listening as a means of retaining healthy hearing throughout one’s life. In 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a global study on hearing and highlighted the growing number of individuals who are at risk of hearing loss.
Apart from events, the government produces annual reports that enable them to learn more about handicapped individuals and provide assistance to those who need it. Hearing aids may be costly, and one of the goals of these reports is to give financial assistance and hearing aids to persons who need them to return to normalcy.
Significance
Many individuals are at risk of hearing loss these days as a consequence of the prevalent habit of working in a noisy environment, listening to audio overhead/earphones, video gaming with headphones, and frequent visits to locations with amplified sound, such as nightclubs, concerts, or fitness classes. Noise-induced hearing loss is permanent, but it is also completely avoidable. However, if left ignored, it may have a severe influence on many parts of our lives, including daily communication, language and speech development in children, cognition, education, and interpersonal relationships.
Organisations will encourage excellent hearing throughout the life course through ear and hearing care on this day. Hearing loss induced by loud sounds is one of the many causes of hearing loss that may be avoided. ‘Safe listening’ can help to reduce the risk of hearing loss caused by loud noises. On this day, the World Health Organization (WHO) calls on governments, business partners, and civil society to increase awareness about the need for safe listening.
