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A country-wide health policy in Chile for deaf adults using cochlear implants: Analysis of health determinants and social impacts

BACKGROUND: Post-lingual deafness represents a critical challenge for adults’ well-being with substantial public health burdens. One treatment of choice has been cochlear implants (CI) for people with severe to profound hearing loss (HL). Since 2018, Chile has implemented a high-cost policy to cover...

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Autores principales: Bustos-Rubilar, Mario, Kyle, Fiona, Luna, Eliazar, Allel, Kasim, Hormazabal, Ximena, Tapia-Mora, Daniel, Mahon, Merle
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10599544/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37878655
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0286592