World Hearing Day 2022. To hear for life, listen with care!

Today is World Hearing Day 2022, and the WHO is focused on the importance of safe listening as a means of maintaining good hearing through life.

In 2021, WHO launched the World report on hearing that highlighted the increasing number of people living with and at risk of hearing loss. It highlighted noise control as one of the seven key H.E.A.R.I.N.G. interventions and stressed the importance of mitigating exposure to loud sounds.

World Hearing Day 2022 “To hear for life, listen with care” focuses on the importance and means of hearing loss prevention through safe listening, with the following key messages:

• It is possible to have good hearing through ear and hearing care​

• Many common causes of hearing loss can be prevented, including hearing loss caused by exposure to loud sounds​

• ‘Safe listening’ can mitigate the risk of hearing loss associated with recreational sound exposure​

• WHO calls upon governments, industry partners and civil society to raise awareness for and implement evidence-based standards that promote safe listening