Table 1.
Details of the Arizona population and hearing aid dispensing workforce by county.
| Arizona County | Population a | Estimated population ≥ 65 years with hearing loss b |
Audiologists c | Hearing instrument specialists c | Person-to-provider ratio
d
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Audiologists | Hearing instrument specialists | |||||
| Apache | 71,606 | 5,585 | 0 | 2 | — | 2,793:1 |
| Cochise | 124,756 | 17,029 | 6 | 4 | 2,838:1 | 4,257:1 |
| Coconino | 140,776 | 10,981 | 13 | 14 | 845:1 | 784:1 |
| Gila | 53,501 | 9,737 | 0 | 4 | — | 2,434:1 |
| Graham | 37,466 | 3,166 | 0 | 1 | — | 3,166:1 |
| Greenlee | 9,455 | 737 | 0 | 0 | — | — |
| La Paz | 20,601 | 5,088 | 0 | 0 | — | — |
| Maricopa | 4,307,033 | 419,936 | 216 | 335 | 1,944:1 | 1,254:1 |
| Mohave | 207,200 | 39,057 | 3 | 22 | 13,019:1 | 1,775:1 |
| Navajo | 108,956 | 12,040 | 4 | 2 | 3,010:1 | 6,020:1 |
| Pima | 1,022,769 | 126,312 | 77 | 109 | 1,640:1 | 1,159:1 |
| Pinal | 430,237 | 55,931 | 5 | 12 | 11,186:1 | 4,661:1 |
| Santa Cruz | 46,212 | 5,106 | 0 | 2 | — | 2,553:1 |
| Yavapai | 228,168 | 44,493 | 3 | 27 | 14,831:1 | 1,648:1 |
| Yuma | 207,534 | 25,630 | 5 | 13 | 5,126:1 | 1,972:1 |
| State Total | 7,016,270 | 780,829 | 332 | 547 | — | — |
Note. Em dashes indicate zero denominator.
a
U.S. Census annual estimates of the resident population: April 1, 2010, to July 1, 2017 (U.S. Census, 2017).
b
Applying National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey estimates for individuals with unilateral or bilateral hearing loss (Lin et al., 2011).
c
Audiologists and hearing instrument specialists with licenses to dispense hearing aids in Arizona as of June 17, 2017 (Arizona Department of Health Services, 2017b).
d
Estimated population ≥ 65 with hearing loss per audiologist and per hearing instrument specialist.