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Evaluation of primary eye care services for children in the Ashanti region of Ghana

African Vision and Eye Health
Background: One of the strategies to improve access to eye care services in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is to integrate such services into primary health care (PHC).
Elizabeth M. Akpakli, Alvin J. Munsamy, Nishanee Rampersad   +2 more
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Barriers to the uptake of eye care services: A cross-sectional survey from rural and urban communities. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
PurposeTo explore the barriers to the uptake of eye care services in urban and rural communities in Papua New Guinea.MethodsThis was a population-based cross-sectional descriptive study and involved multi-stage sampling.
Bismark Owusu-Afriyie, Nancy Peter, Felix Ivihi, Issac Kopil, Theresa Gende   +4 more
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Environmental sustainability in eye-care services [PDF]

romanian journal of ophthalmology, 2023
Gheorghe CM.
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People deliver eye care: managing human resources

Community Eye Health Journal, 2005
People deliver health. Effective health care needs an efficient and motivated health workforce, which is the totality of individuals who directly or indirectly contribute to the promotion, protection and improvement of the health of the population ...
Kayode Odusote
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Regional eye care survey: An essential prerequisite for an overall betterment of eye care services [PDF]

Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2023
Kavitha Venkatachalam, Mallikarjun M Heralgi   +1 more
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Utilisation of public eye care services by the rural community residents in the Capricorn district, Limpopo Province, South Africa

African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, 2012
Background: Visual impairment and blindness are major health problems worldwide, especially in the rural and remote areas of developing countries. Utilisation of eye care services is essential to reduce the burden of visual impairment and blindness, and ...
Mologadi D. Ntsoane, Olalekan A. Oduntan, Benjamin L. Mpolokeng   +2 more
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The monoamine stabilizer OSU6162 has anxiolytic-like properties and reduces voluntary alcohol intake in a genetic rat model of depression

Scientific Reports, 2021
Alcohol use disorders (AUD) often co-occur with anxiety and depressive disorders, and anxiety often drives relapse during alcohol abstinence. Optimal AUD pharmacotherapies may thus need to target both excessive alcohol intake and elevated anxiety ...
Philippe A. Melas, Malin Wirf, Helder André, Nitya Jayaram-Lindström, Aleksander A. Mathé, Pia Steensland   +5 more
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Health systems analysis of eye care services in Zambia: evaluating progress towards VISION 2020 goals. [PDF]

, 2014
BACKGROUND: VISION 2020 is a global initiative launched in 1999 to eliminate avoidable blindness by 2020. The objective of this study was to undertake a situation analysis of the Zambian eye health system and assess VISION 2020 process indicators on ...
Bozzani, FM, Griffiths, Ulla Kou, Elena Schmidt, Schmidt, E, Bozzani, Fiammetta Maria, Schmidt, Elena, Ulla Kou Griffiths, Griffiths, UK, Fiammetta Maria Bozzani, Blanchet, K, Blanchet, Karl, Karl Blanchet   +11 more
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The Accuracy of Accredited Glaucoma Optometrists in the Diagnosis and Treatment Recommendation for Glaucoma [PDF]

, 2007
Background/aims: To compare the diagnostic performance of accredited glaucoma optometrists (AGO) for both the diagnosis of, and decision to treat glaucoma with that of routine hospital eye care against a reference standard of expert opinion, i.e ...
Burr, J., Thomas, Ruth, Thomas, Ruth Elizabeth, MacLennan, Graeme Stewart, Thomas, R., Burr, Jennifer Margaret, Maclennan, G., McPherson, S., Maclennan, Graeme, McPherson, Stephen, Azuara-Blanco, Augusto, Burr, Jennifer, Azuara-Blanco, A.; id_orcid   +12 more
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Considerations in the integration of eye care into leprosy care services

Leprosy Review, 1992
Little attention has been directed to the development, management and evaluation of eye care programmes for leprosy patients. This paper examines when an eye care programme for leprosy patients is needed, methods for integrating eye care into leprosy control programmes and lists of available ocular leprosy teaching materials.
P, Courtright, S, Lewallen
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