Skip to main content

Comprehensive hearing health program (cHHP)

Noise is the most prevalent hazardous exposure faced by all Service members, regardless of occupation or specialty. The DoD Hearing Center of Excellence (HCE) is spearheading hearing health initiatives that focus on the total population of U.S. Service members, regardless of their daily job-related noise exposure. The HCE’s Comprehensive Hearing Health Program (CHHP) is comprised of annual education, protection, and monitoring.  All three of these components are required to create positive individual and organizational behavior change toward protection of hearing as a life-long priority.    

Implementation of CHHP across the DoD and VA helps promote hearing as a critical sense that is worthy of protection and preservation over the course of a lifetime

It’s a noisy world, protect your hearing.

Educate

This component focuses on promoting individual and organizational change through hearing health promotion.  The HCE is promoting the CHHP educational products to increase Service member awareness and understanding of the devastating effects of noise and noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL), which is an invisible injury.   Military and veteran facilities can download the educational materials via HCE website link to the Pueblo Government Publishing Office at Pueblo GPO, (upper right corner of HCE website).   All of the materials are available for high resolution download.  Simply click on the blue text for each item on the Pueblo site and a copy will be downloaded to your computer..  

Protect

This component involves the individual fitting and wear of hearing protection devices (HPDs) for individuals who are exposed to hazardous noise at work and at home.  Service members are fitted annually with HPDs and provided individual counseling about the importance of proper wear and use of HPDs whenever exposed to hazardous noise.

 

Monitor

This component includes annual hearing surveillance, which is vital to hearing loss prevention.   The purpose of annual monitoring is to ensure Service members maintain hearing health through-out their military career and lifetime

Chhp materials list

All of the below forms are available for high resolution download or order at the Pueblo GPO site.  Simply click on the blue text for each item on the Pueblo site and a copy will be downloaded to your computer.  

PRODUCT # CHHP Educational Packets
Type/Size
POSTERS
HCE-805 Deepest Wounds Are Invisible - Arm Your Ears
HCE-810 Don't Be the Weak Link
HCE-811 Hearing Loss Impacts Career, Family, and Social Life
HCE-812 Hearing Loss is a Silent Epidemic (Among Veterans)
HCE-807 (11X17) Hearing Loss is Preventable
HCE-803 How Loud is Too Loud?
HCE-802 Interpreting the Audiogram
HCE-816 Look Tug Listen
HCE-809 Only Fear What You Cannot Hear
HCE-814 (11X17) They Need a Role Model
HCE-800 Turn Down the Volume
HCE-808 You Are Not Fit, Unless Your Ears Are
HCE-844 How We Hear
HCE-845 Hearing Health: It's a Family Matter
HCE-846 (11x17) Evolution of Hearing Protection Devices
HCE-847 (11x17) Isolation of Hearing Loss Don’t Be Left Out
HCE-848 (24x28) HPD PosterGuidebook
HCE-858 (11x17) Noise-Induced Hearing Loss is on the Rise Nationwide Poster
VIDEOS
HCE-830 HCE TCAPS video --Service Members (Operational Video)
PSAs (longer versions, all looped)
HCE-836 Hearing and Military Service
HCE-836 Hearing Loss and Quality of Life All 4 on Same
HCE-836 Hearing Awareness DVD
HCE-836 Importance of Hearing in the Military
BROCHURES
HCE-820 HCE/CHHP Trifold-Hearing Loss Prevention
HCE-840 Heaing Loss Prevention-Veterans
HCE-849 Tinnitus Brochure
HCE-852 Patient Engagement Brouchure
HCE-853 Comprehensive Hearing Health Care Patient Brouchure
FLIP CHARTS
HCE-822 Topic One: Clinical Provider Flip Chart
HCE-823 Topic Two: Hearing Health Provider (Prevention) Flip
SLICK SHEETS
HCE-827 Aid Your Hearing (HAs and ALDs)
HCE-826 It's a Balancing Act
HCE-824 Hearing as a Critical Sense
HCE-825 Noise Hazards
HCE-855 Overview of HCE
HCE-857 Assistive Listening Devices-Fact Sheet

 



chhp milbook

Comprehensive Hearing Health Program (CHHP) milBook

The Hearing Center of Excellence (HCE) leads efforts to prevent hearing loss through adoption of education tools like the Comprehensive Hearing Health Program (CHHP). The CHHP is a triad approach to enhancing hearing healthcare. To be effective, it requires education, monitoring, and protection elements. All components work together to create positive individual and organizational behavior change toward hearing loss prevention. Implementing the CHHP at your local organization will ensure service members receive the necessary hearing health information and services to help them increase their knowledge and awareness of hearing health.

The CHHP milBook  (CAC-enabled) site contains educational materials that you can use in promoting hearing as a critical sense worthy of protection and preservation over the course of a lifetime.

Instructions on how to access the CAC-enabled milBook site are in the below document.

CHHP milBook Access Instructions

Quick Fact

#2

Noise that’s too loud, too close, or that lasts too long can damage the inner ear and cause noise-induced hearing loss, or NIHL.

About Us

The Hearing Center of Excellence fosters and promotes the prevention, diagnosis, mitigation, treatment, rehabilitation and research of hearing loss and auditory injury. It supports the development, exchange and adoption of best practices, research, measures of effectiveness and clinical care guidelines to reduce the prevalence and cost of hearing loss and tinnitus among Warriors and Veterans. Read more

Hearing Health Challenge For Change

Take the challenge, pledge your commitment, and share your story in the prevention of hearing loss in America today.

The Hearing Center of Excellence is committed to promoting Hearing Loss Programs and Hearing Loss Prevention Initiatives across the DoD. Take the pledge to implement the Comprehensive Hearing Health Program (CHHP) at your local clinic and share with us how it's going for you!

Pledge on Facebook Pledge on Twitter
Some documents are presented in Portable Document Format (PDF). A PDF reader is required for viewing. Download a PDF Reader or learn more about PDFs.