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Better Hearing Institute Joins HHS' Office on Women's Health in Promoting National Women's Health Week and Hearing Health
Date:4/30/2010

The Better Hearing Institute (BHI) announced today that it is joining the Office of Women’s Health (OWH) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in promoting National Women’s Health Week, which starts May 9. The effort is part of BHI’s campaign to promote hearing health during National Hearing and Speech Month in May.

Washington, DC (PRWEB) April 30, 2010 -- The Better Hearing Institute (BHI) announced today that it is joining the Office of Women’s Health (OWH) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in promoting National Women’s Health Week, which starts May 9. The effort is part of BHI’s campaign to promote hearing health during National Hearing and Speech Month in May.

BHI is offering an online hearing test, the Across America Hearing Check Challenge (www.hearingcheck.org), where people can quickly assess if they may have a hearing loss and need a more comprehensive hearing check by a hearing professional.

In addition, BHI is encouraging hearing health professionals to organize hearing screenings in their communities; host health fairs; disseminate women’s health information; and publicize National Women’s Health Week in their practices and communities. A list of National Women’s Health Week events around the country is at http://www.womenshealth.gov/whw.

More than 13 million women in America suffer from unaddressed hearing loss. Hearing loss is one of the most commonly unaddressed health conditions in America today and in affects more than 34 million Americans, most below retirement age.

“Unaddressed hearing loss is an under-recognized health issue that undermines quality of
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