siliconindia | | May 20194The global market for audiology services is expected to flourish over the forecast period of 2017-2027 due to increasing awareness about physical, social and psychological, needs of patients with hearing loss issues coupled with services adoption amongst the old age group. However, in India, hearing impairment remains a major social and health issue in India, like many other disabilities. With a population of more than a billion people and an estimated prevalence of hearing loss of somewhere between 5.9 per cent and 16.5 per cent, India has a significant number of hearing impaired individuals. Also, extending medical applications at audiology service centres, increasing number of qualified physicians for audiology services, expanding ageing demographics etc. are other co-factors contributing to the overall growth of the audiology services market.Various well-established audiology companies are seen to offer modern hearing healthcare services throughout the country. The modern hearing healthcare is influenced by rehabilitation models and offers hearing assessment and hearing rehabilitation with the use of modern technological devices such as hearing aids. These service providers primarily offer specialist audiological services, although various other professionals such as general medical practitioners, teachers of the deaf, health workers and community volunteers offer some basic services at primary and secondary levels. However, services in more specialized areas such as cochlear implantation, vestibular assessment and management, assessment and management of auditory processing disorders, and tinnitus rehabilitation are offered by few specialized providers.In our current edition, we have featured a list of such service providers who are helping a greater portion of the Indian population to afford these healthcare services. We also recommend you to read our cover story on Ear Science Centre, generating world-class speech and hearing care for people.Do let us know your thoughts Nandini MukherjeeSpecial Editoreditor@siliconindia.comThe growth of Audiology Services Market in India Editorialsiliconindia Vol 07 · Issue 10 - 2 · May 17, 2019 Publisher Alok Chaturvedi Managing Editor Anamika Sahu Special Editor Nandini Mukherjee Editorial Team Ananth.V Amit Raja Naik Aparna Roy Archee Roy Avinash Roy Hridkamal Roy Imelda Tarzarina John Roshan Anto Shefali Mathur Sophia Rohtagi Srrayvinya OLM Sujith Vasudevan Trisha Pragya VP - Sales & Marketing Virupakshi Pattar Advertising Managers Editorial queries editor@siliconindia.com To subscribe Visit https://www.siliconindia.com/subscribe/ or send email to subscription@siliconindia.com Cover price is Rs.150 per issue. Printed and Published By Alok Chaturvedi on behalf of SiliconMedia Technologies Pvt Ltd and Printed at Precision Fototype Services at Sri Sabari Shopping Complex, 24 Residency Road Bangalore-560025 and Published At No. 124, 2nd Floor, Surya Chambers, Old Airport Road, Murugeshpalya, Bangalore-560017. Editor Alok ChaturvediCopyright © 2019 SiliconMedia Technologies Pvt Ltd, All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher.advertise@siliconindia.comVisualisers Veena R Piddannavar SivasankarGroup Art DirectorAshok KumarNoida Ashu Sethi Garima Anand Circulation Manager Magendran PerumalAnupreethi danila.D. Felisha Rita Jaya Arora
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