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December 2008, Vol 98, No. 12 | American Journal of Public Health 2167-2172
© 2008 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2007.128504

PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE MILITARY

Heritage of Army Audiology and the Road Ahead: The Army Hearing Program

D. Scott McIlwain, AuD, Kathy Gates, AuD and Donald Ciliax, PhD

At the time this article was written, D. Scott McIlwain was with the Department of Preventive Health Services, Army Medical Department Center and School, Fort Sam Houston, TX. Kathy Gates was with the US Army Proponency Office for Preventive Medicine, Falls Church, VA. Donald Ciliax was with the US Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine, Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to D. Scott McIlwain, AuD, Hearwell, LLC, 6100 Neil Road, Suite 500, Reno, NV 89511 (e-mail: scott{at}hearwell.org).

Noise-induced hearing loss has been documented as early as the 16th century, when a French surgeon, Ambroise Paré, wrote of the treatment of injuries sustained by firearms and described acoustic trauma in great detail. Even so, the protection of hearing would not be addressed for three more centuries, when the jet engine was invented and resulted in a long overdue whirlwind of policy development addressing the prevention of hearing loss.

We present a synopsis of hearing loss prevention in the US Army and describe the current Army Hearing Program, which aims to prevent noise-induced hearing loss in soldiers and to ensure their maximum combat effectiveness.






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