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How to empower communities to take action on improving eye health. [PDF]

open access: gold, 2014
As discussed earlier in this issue, we cannot assume, once appropriate services are established or useful information has been shared, that community eye health will automatically improve.
Mactaggart, Islay, Ricard, Paddy
core   +12 more sources

Refractive Error and Eye Health: An Umbrella Review of Meta-Analyses

open access: yesFrontiers in Medicine, 2021
Purpose: To explore the associations between refractive errors and multiple eye health outcomes.Methods: This is an umbrella review based on systematic reviews with meta-analyses.
Yin-hao Wang   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Power of Advocacy: Advancing Vision for Everyone to Meet the Sustainable Development Goals

open access: yesInternational Journal of Public Health, 2022
Advocacy is instrumental to achieving significant policy change for vision. Global advocacy efforts over the past decades enabled recognition of vision as a major public health, human rights, and development issue.
Eva Lazuka-Nicoulaud   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Attitude and behaviour of soft contact lens wearers toward compliance in Gauteng, South Africa

open access: yesAfrican Vision and Eye Health, 2023
Background: There are ongoing concerns regarding adherence to contact lens (CL) care regimens by wearers. Global studies evaluating behavioural trends have shown that full compliance to CL wear is rare and widespread non-compliance exists.
Tania B. Noach   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Acidentes de trabalho envolvendo os olhos: avaliação de riscos ocupacionais com trabalhadores de enfermagem Accidentes de trabajo involucrando los ojos: evaluación de riesgos laborales con trabajadores de enfermería Labor accidents involving the eyes: assessment of occupational risks involving nursing workers

open access: yesRevista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem, 2005
Objetivou-se identificar trabalhadores de enfermagem que sofreram acidentes oculares e o tipo de acidente; descrever as providências tomadas e propor metodologias de Educação em Saúde. Estudo descritivo, exploratório, realizado em maternidade pública, de
Cristiana Brasil de Almeida   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Elimination of avoidable blindness due to cataract: Where do we prioritize and how should we monitor this decade?

open access: yesIndian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2012
Background: In the final push toward the elimination of avoidable blindness, cataract occupies a position of eminence for the success of the Right to Sight initiative. Aims: Review existing situation and assess what monitoring indicators may be useful to
Gudlavalleti VS Murthy   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Investigation of the effect of online education on eye health in Covid-19 pandemic

open access: yesInternational Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2020
The aim of this research is to evaluate the effect of online education on eye health in Covid-19 pandemic and to present a new scale on this subject.
Huseyin Kaya
doaj   +1 more source

Improving equity, efficiency and adherence to referral in Pakistan's eye health programmes: Pre- and post-pandemic onset

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2022
BackgroundOver one billion people worldwide live with avoidable blindness or vision impairment. Eye Health Programmes tackle this by providing screening, primary eye care, refractive correction, and referral to hospital eye services.
Asad Aslam Khan   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

Critical issues in implementing low vision care in the Asia-Pacific region

open access: yesIndian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2012
Two-thirds of the world′s population with low vision resides in the Asia-Pacific region. Provision of comprehensive low vision services is important to improve vision-related quality of life (QoL) for people with this condition.
Peggy Pei-Chia Chiang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Factors Associated with Maternal Knowledge about Eye Health in Pregnancy at Gunungpati Community Health Center, Semarang [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Background: Pregnancy causes hemodynamic changes and extracellular matrix structures, collagen sclera associated with refractive status. The addition of refractive status to high retention rates in myopia may result in permanent viscosity and blindness ...
Julianti, H. P. (Hari)   +1 more
core   +1 more source

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