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Utilisation of eye care services in rural south India: the Aravind Comprehensive Eye Survey [PDF]

British Journal of Ophthalmology, 2004
To determine utilisation of eye care services in a rural population of southern India aged 40 years or older.5150 subjects aged 40 years and older selected through a random cluster sampling technique from three districts in southern India underwent detailed ocular examinations for vision impairment, blindness, and ocular morbidity.
P K, Nirmalan, J, Katz, A L, Robin, R, Krishnadas, R, Ramakrishnan, R D, Thulasiraj, J, Tielsch   +6 more
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Best practice eye care models

Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2012
Since the launching of Global Initiative, VISION 2020 "the Right to Sight" many innovative, practical and unique comprehensive eye care services provision models have evolved targeting the underserved populations in different parts of the World.
Babar M Qureshi, Rabiu Mansur, Abdulaziz Al-Rajhi, Van Lansingh, Kristen Eckert, Kunle Hassan, Thulasiraj Ravilla, Mohammad Muhit, Rohit C Khanna, Chaudhry Ismat   +9 more
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Systematic review of the appropriateness of eye care delivery in eye care practice

BMC Health Services Research, 2019
Background Health care systems are continually being reformed, however care improvement and intervention effectiveness are often assumed, not measured.
Kam Chun Ho, Fiona Stapleton, Louise Wiles, Peter Hibbert, Sally Alkhawajah, Andrew White, Isabelle Jalbert   +6 more
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Improving eye care in residential aged care facilities using the Residential Ocular Care (ROC) model: study protocol for a multicentered, prospective, customized, and cluster randomized controlled trial in Australia [PDF]

Trials, 2018
Background Older adults in residential aged care facilities have unnecessarily high levels of vision impairment (VI) which are largely treatable or correctable.
Edith E. Holloway, Marios Constantinou, Jing Xie, Eva K. Fenwick, Eric A. Finkelstein, Ryan E. K. Man, Michael Coote, Jonathan Jackson, Gwyn Rees, Ecosse L. Lamoureux   +9 more
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Improving eye care in Rwanda

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2015
Problem Visual impairment affects nearly 285 million people worldwide. Although there has been much progress in combating the burden of visual impairment through initiatives such as VISION 2020, barriers to progress, especially in African countries ...
Agnes Binagwaho, Kirstin Scott, Thomas Rosewall, Graeme Mackenzie, Gweneth Rehnborg, Sjoerd Hannema, Max Presente, Piet Noe, Wanjiku Mathenge, John Nkurikiye, Francois Habiyaremye, Theophile Dushime   +11 more
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Case study: improving the management of eye care programmes

Community Eye Health Journal, 2008
Nigeria is a federation of 36 administrative States, which each have a mandate to deliver health care to their population. Sightsavers International has been supporting four State ministries of health (Cross River, Kaduna, Kwara, and Sokoto) in ...
Kolawole Olumide Ogundimu
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Compliance with follow-up in patients with diabetic macular edema: Eye care center vs. diabetes care center

Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2023
Purpose: The study was conducted to compare the compliance to intravitreal injection treatment and follow-up in patients with center-involving diabetic macular edema (CI-DME) and treatment outcomes between a tertiary eye care facility and a tertiary ...
Geetha Kumar, Saranya Velu, Ramachandran Rajalakshmi, Janani Surya, Viswanathan Mohan, Aayushi Raman, Rajiv Raman   +6 more
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Delivering mobile eye care to underserved communities while providing training in ophthalmology to medical students: experience of the Guerrilla Eye Service

Clinical Ophthalmology, 2019
Andrew M Williams,* Benjamin Botsford,* Peter Mortensen, Daniel Park, Evan L Waxman Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA *These authors contributed equally to this work Objective: The objective of ...
Williams AM, Botsford B, Mortensen P, Park D, Waxman EL   +4 more
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Establishing Low Vision Services at Secondary Level

Community Eye Health Journal, 2004
Introduction. VISION 2020: The Right to Sight has provided a new impetus to the concept of comprehensive eye care encompassing eye health promotion and prevention of blindness, treatment of eye disease and rehabilitation services for people with ...
Haroon Awan, Hasan Minto
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Assessment of pediatric eye care services in health facilities in the Ashanti region of Ghana

African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine
Background: Childhood visual impairment is an important public health concern considering the social, emotional and economic consequences. Lack of access to eye care services contributes to this growing problem.
Elizabeth M. Akpakli, Alvin J. Munsamy, Nishanee Rampersad   +2 more
doaj   +3 more sources