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Dialechti Tsimpida1,2, Roberta Piroddi3, Konstantinos Daras4,5
1Centre for Research On Ageing, University of Southampton, Murray Building (58), Highfield Campus, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK. d.tsimpida@soton.ac.uk.
This study quantifies hearing loss using primary care data, revealing spatial clusters and trends in Northwest England. Deprivation significantly impacts hearing loss prevalence, highlighting the need for targeted public health interventions.
Area of Science:
- Public Health
- Epidemiology
- Healthcare Analytics
Background:
- Hearing loss is a major public health issue, often underestimated due to reliance on demographic projections.
- Real-world data is crucial for accurate prevalence assessment and understanding local health needs.
Purpose of the Study:
- To quantify hearing loss prevalence using primary care data.
- To explore spatial patterns and trends of hearing loss from 2013-2022 in Cheshire and Merseyside.
- To investigate the impact of socioeconomic deprivation on hearing loss.
Main Methods:
- Ecological space-time analysis of 2.7 million primary care records.
- Cluster and outlier analysis.
- Geographically weighted regression to assess deprivation effects.
Main Results:
- Identified spatial clusters of high hearing loss prevalence in Cheshire.
- Observed an increasing trend in hearing loss prevalence in Halton.
- Found that deprivation explained up to 35% of hearing loss variance in 2020.
Conclusions:
- Monitoring spatial patterns of hearing loss is essential for public health.
- Findings underscore the importance of addressing health inequalities.
- Data-driven insights can guide targeted prevention and intervention strategies for hearing loss.
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