Torres GLM, Robles CM, Noda RI

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

This study consists in the handling of an application model for the study of audition in workers exposed to noise analysing the most important parameters or risk factors that interfere in the hearing loss: occupational environment, clinical antecedents, physical examination and audition study. Our objective has been converted this model in an instrument for the picking up of the information and to quantify it, in workplaces with high levels of noise. It is a necessity to have an adequate statistics for one of the most important diseases in Occupational Medicine that should be based on the principal variables that interfere in this impediment. This application model is being used in the National Institute for Workers’ Health (Insat) of Havana since two years ago and it is being applied to all workers exposed to noise. We have accomplished a statistical study to 3 groups of workers from different centres, and they presented a high pollution of noise and the effect of some other occupational risk factors in their environment.

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