Our student helper and anthropology student Therese Kjellerup Thorstholm has written an article in the January 2011 issue of the Danish magazine Hørelsen (Hearing) about the lack of hearing loss prevention programs targeted at young people in the Danish society.
She exemplifies how sound from MP3 players is something that we can control ourselves unlike other sounds from our surroundings. Even though many know how damaging it can be, they still turn up the volume. The lack of initiatives of prevention is surprising compared to how many published researches show the increase of young people with hearing loss caused by mp3 players. The article is written in Danish.
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