Occupational Voice Loss covers procedures to detect, assess, and prevent voice loss in schools, industrial facilities, and other workplace environments.

Features:

• Showcases the range of workers potentially at risk for occupational voice loss
• Illustrates the effect of noise, humidity, temperature, stress, fatigue, infection, air quality, and workplace exposure to chemicals on the voice
• Contains methods to identify and assess voice loss in work environments
• Provides a checklist for voice health in the workplace, a questionnaire for detecting voice problems at work, and sample training programs and policies for occupational voice health

Contents

• How Voice is Produced
• Scale of the Problem and Groups at Risk
• Aetiology of Voice Disorders
• Assessment and Diagnosis of Voice Disorders
• Prevention and Treatment
• Medicolegal Issues

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