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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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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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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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Assessment of eye health care services of Bangladesh using eye care service assessment tools
International Journal of Research in Medical Sciences, 2022 Background: Bangladesh is being the commissioner for oaths to vision 2020, a global campaign for elimination of avoidable blindness by 2020, formulated a national eye care plan. This report illustrates the present status of Bangladesh eye health care service using eye care service assessment tool (ECSAT) that assesses an eye health system across six ...
A.H.M. Enayet Hussain +6 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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Seeing you through London 2012: eye care at the Paralympics [PDF]
, 2013 Background The provision of eye care services for competitors and support teams is integral to the modern Olympic Games. The eye clinic for the London 2012 Paralympic Games employed a multidisciplinary team of eye care professionals using state-of-the ...
D'Ath, P., Thomson, W., Wilson, C. M.
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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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Improving eye care services for children. [PDF]
Community Eye HealthMalik A, Gilbert C.
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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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