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Building the eye care team

, 2014
Eye care services are people intensive. They require the right people (competence), in the right numbers (capacity), in the right mix (team) with the right resources and processes (enabling conditions) to ensure effective and sustainable delivery of ...
Thulasiraj Ravilla, Gnanasekaran Chinnathambi   +1 more
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Eye care during the COVID-19 pandemic: a report on patients' perceptions and experiences, an Asian perspective

, 2022
Introduction: To elucidate the perceptions on eye care of patients affected by the disruption of outpatient and surgical ophthalmological services during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rousselot, Andrés, Agrawal, Rupesh, Agarwal, Manisha, Low, Rebecca, Lee, Jia Min, Lai, Ser Sei   +5 more
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Utilisation of eye care services in rural south India: The Aravind Comprehensive Eye Survey

, 2004
Aim: To determine utilisation of eye care services in a rural population of southern India aged 40 years or older. Methods: 5150 subjects aged 40 years and older selected through a random cluster sampling technique from three districts in southern India ...
Robin, A. L., Ramakrishnan, R., Katz, J., Krishnadas, R., Thulasiraj, R. D., Tielsch, J., Nirmalan, P. K.   +6 more
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Improving access to refractive and eye health services

, 2016
Avoidable blindness and vision impairment affects 741 million people worldwide. Uncorrected refractive error (URE) is the major cause, accounting for 84% of all cases, or 625 million people. Despite URE being easily detected, measured and corrected, many
Judith Stern, Luigi Bilotto, Kesi Naidoo, Michael Morton, Luisa Casas Luque, Rob Terry   +5 more
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Rates of referable eye disease in the Scottish National Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Programme [PDF]

, 2014
Aims: Diabetic retinopathy screening aims to detect people at risk of visual loss due to proliferative diabetic retinopathy, but also refers cases of suspected macular oedema (maculopathy).
Lee, N, Scottish Diabetes Research Network (SDRN) Epidemiology group, Wild, S H, Cromie, D T, Colhoun, H. M., Cromie, D. T., Wild, S. H., Morris, A D, Olson, J. A., Philip, Sam, McKnight, J. A., Pearson, D. W. M., Leese, G. P., Morris, Andrew, Lindsay, R.S., Lee, N., Olson, J A, Leese, G P, Wild, S. H.; id_orcid, Looker, H. C., Doig, J, Pearson, D W M, Black, M W, Looker, H C, Doig, J., ?, ?, Nyangoma, S. O., Black, M. W., Lindsay, R. S., Morris, A. D., Nyangoma, S O, Lindsay, R S, Philip, S., Colhoun, H M, McKnight, J A   +34 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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Utilization of eye care services among adults in a rural community in Rivers State South-South, Nigeria

Journal of Clinical Ophthalmology and Research
Background: The aim of this study was to assess the awareness and utilization of eye care services among adults aged 40 years and above in Ndele, Rivers State.
Datonjo Alwell George, Godswill Inye Nathaniel   +1 more
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Ecological considerations for intervention strategy in the development of eye health promotion policy in South Africa

African Vision and Eye Health, 2015
Eye health promotion is an important component of public health. To realise the essential aspects of eye health promotion, the formulation and implementation of policy as an intervention strategy is a major contributory factor and can best be described ...
Hlupheka L. Sithole
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Primary eye care needs and services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations across Queensland: a 'users' perspective

, 1996
The ocular health status of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (A&TSI) population is significantly poorer than that of the wider community.
Wood, Joanne M., Wildsoet, Christine F.
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Improving access to eye care services in Ghana using community health structures

African Vision and Eye Health
Background: To improve access to appropriate eye health care services within the community health structures in Ghana, pre- and post-intervention studies were carried out to explore the feasibility of integrating primary eye health into the community ...
Anthony Ofosu, Ivy Osei, Maria Hagan, Leticia Biekro, Albert K. Awedoba, Boateng Wiafe   +5 more
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