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Building consensus for the development of child eye care services in South Darfur State of Sudan using the Delphi technique [PDF]
African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, 2018 Background: Global estimates suggest there are almost 19 million visually impaired children worldwide, most of whom reside in poor countries, with the major cause being treatable.
Saif H. Alrasheed +3 more
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Utilisation of eye-care services: The effect of Scotland's free eye examination policy
Health Policy, 2012 To examine how the introduction of free eye examinations in Scotland affected people's use of eye care services. Particularly, to assess if more people are now having their eyes examined regularly, and whether there are differences in the way people responded to the policy across socio-economic groups.Using the British Household Panel Survey, eye test ...
Heather Dickey +2 more
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Advocacy to improve the delivery of eye care
Community Eye Health Journal, 2007 Advocacy has a role to play in any eye care initiative. It can help individuals or organisations to obtain more resources, and it can support programme implementation and service delivery.
RD Thulasiraj
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Internal limiting membrane peeling in macular hole surgery
GMS German Medical Science, 2022 Since the era when macular hole was considered untreatable, macular hole surgery has come a long way to being one of the most successful surgeries. Internal limiting membrane (ILM) peeling has been an essential step of macular hole surgery since the ...
Pradhan, Deepti +5 more
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Eye health profile of affordable eye care service users
Clinical and Experimental Optometry, 2021 Knowledge of the typical eye health profile of patients experiencing social or economic disadvantage is useful for health care modelling. The aim of this work is to profile the ocular health and sociodemographic characteristics of Australian College of Optometry service users of all ages and to explore the relationships between key sociodemographic ...
Marianne Piano +4 more
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BMJ Open Ophthalmology, 2023 Objective To study the visual, refractive and surgical outcomes of intraocular lens (IOL) implantation versus aphakia in children with microspherophakia.Design Retrospective, comparative, non-randomised interventional study.Methods All consecutive ...
Ramesh Kekunnaya +3 more
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Nigerian Journal of Medicine, 2022 Background: Evidence shows that poor utilization of available eye care services by potential beneficiaries is a major barrier to reducing the burden of visual impairment (VI) and blindness.
Fatima Hudu Umar, O P Odugbo, C D Mpyet
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African Vision and Eye Health, 2023 Background: Public eye care services in South Africa are relatively underdeveloped. This is, in part, due to optometry services historically being private sector-focussed, as well as a lack of ophthalmologists in the country.
Noxolo L. Zulu, Diane van Staden
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Portuguese Journal of Public Health, 2023 Introduction: Refractive error is a public health concern and even with relatively simple and cost-effective interventions it remains usually outside national health services (NHSs) not ensuring universal health coverage.
Vera L. Alves Carneiro +1 more
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Improving eye care services with a lean approach [PDF]
Acta Ophthalmologica, 2018 AbstractPurposeEffective provision of eye care services in government‐financed hospitals is essential to balance the discrepancy between growing demand and limited resources. We aimed to improve efficiency of the treatment protocol for Nd:YAG laser posterior capsulotomy.
Hippala Heli +9 more
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