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Eye care services and benefits paid by medical schemes in South Africa

African Vision and Eye Health, 2023
Background: Vision impairment (VI) affects people worldwide, and demographic factors like age are significantly linked to VI. Routine eye exams and other eye care treatments can detect and prevent common eye illnesses.
Michael M. Willie
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Working with communities to improve their eye health. [PDF]

, 2014
As an eye health worker you will be aware of various community interventions for improving eye health. These can involve encouraging people to take better care of their eyes (e.g.
Mactaggart, Islay
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Requirements for Driving and Perceived Barriers to Accessing Eye Care Services; a Comparative Study of Government and Commercial Drivers in Southwestern Nigeria

Journal of Interventional Epidemiology and Public Health, 2021
Introduction: Satisfactory driving and eye tests at accredited centers by national traffic regulatory agencies are prerequisites for issuance of driver's license.
Adefisoye Oluwaseun Adewole, Abiodun Oladejo Egwuenu, Simeon Whenayon Ajisegiri, Adeleye Abiodun Adeomi, Oluwatosin Adediran Adeoye, Moses Katbi   +5 more
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Eye care services evaluation in a low-income urban population of São Paulo City - Brazil [PDF]

, 2009
PURPOSE: To evaluate eye care services from the user's perspective in a low income population from the east zone of the city of São Paulo - Brazil. METHODS: A household survey was performed using cluster sampling in three low income districts of the city
Belfort, Rubens Junior, Berezovsky, Adriana, Cinoto, Rafael Werneck, Mendieta, Luana, Pereira, Josenilson Martins, Sacai, Paula Yuri, Salomão, Solange Rios   +6 more
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Knowledge and practices of eye health professionals about the availability and accessibility of child eye care services in the public sector in Swaziland

African Vision and Eye Health, 2019
Background: International and African rights instruments stipulate that children have the right to access quality general and eye health care. Lack of access to quality eye care can have a significant negative impact on the child, family and society in ...
Velibanti Sukati, Vanessa R. Moodley, Khathutshelo P. Mashige   +2 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 ...
Blanchet, K, Blanchet, K, Bozzani, FM, Bozzani, FM, Griffiths, UK, Griffiths, UK, Schmidt, E, Schmidt, E   +7 more
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Post-cataract eye drops can be avoided by depot steroid injections. [PDF]

, 2017
There are over 400 000 cataract operations now being performed annually in the UK. With the majority of those patients being older people, comorbidities such as dementia or arthritis can prevent patients putting in their own post-operative eye drops ...
Buchan, John C, Cassels-Brown, Andy, Cleveland, Victoria, Sutton, Heather   +3 more
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Health Insurance Coverage and Use of Eye Care Services [PDF]

Archives of Ophthalmology, 2008
To compare realized access or use of eye care services in adults with self-reported vision problems in Canada and the United States.Using the Joint Canada/United States Survey of Health, we examined the differences in use of eye care services in 2018 Canadian respondents and 2930 American respondents with self-reported vision problems.
Xinzhi, Zhang, Paul P, Lee, Theodore J, Thompson, Sanjay, Sharma, Lawrence, Barker, Linda S, Geiss, Giuseppina, Imperatore, Edward W, Gregg, Xuanping, Zhang, Jinan B, Saaddine   +9 more
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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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Advocacy for eye care

Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2012
The effectiveness of eye care service delivery is often dependant on how the different stakeholders are aligned. These stakeholders range from the ministries of health who have the capacity to grant government subsidies for eye care, down to the primary ...
Thulasiraj D Ravilla, Dhivya Ramasamy
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