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