Global Health Partnerships: A Perspective of Eye Health Initiatives from the Uganda-United Kingdom Engagements and the Global Health Agenda [PDF]
Annals of Global HealthPrimrose Magala +5 more
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Factors Associated with Maternal Knowledge about Eye Health in Pregnancy at Gunungpati Community Health Center, Semarang [PDF]
, 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
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Visual status and prevalence of eye disorders among school-age children in southern Nigeria
African Vision and Eye Health, 2017 Aim: This study assessed the types and prevalence of eye problems among school-age children in Cross River State (CRS), Nigeria. Method: The study design was a cross-sectional analytic survey of 2418 school children aged 6–17 years from seven public and
Bernadine N. Ekpenyong +6 more
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Refractive Error and Eye Health: An Umbrella Review of Meta-Analyses
Frontiers 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
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High-Risk Corneal Graft Rejection in the Setting of Previous Corneal Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV)-1 Infection [PDF]
, 2016 Acknowledgments The authors thank M. Robertson and R. Fordyce for technical support during the duration of the study. The work performed in Aberdeen was supported by grant from Action Medical Research UK (SP4328; London, England, UK), NHS Grampian ...
Amescua, Guillermo +7 more
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The global cost of eliminating avoidable blindness
Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2012 Aims : To complete an initial estimate of the global cost of eliminating avoidable blindness, including the investment required to build ongoing primary and secondary health care systems, as well as to eliminate the ′backlog′ of avoidable blindness. This
Kirsten L Armstrong +4 more
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Incidence of symptomatic toxoplasma eye disease: aetiology and public health implications. [PDF]
, 1999 Ocular disease is the commonest disabling consequence of toxoplasma infection. Incidence and lifetime risk of ocular symptoms were determined by ascertaining affected patients in a population-based, active reporting study involving ophthalmologists ...
Dunn, DT +8 more
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Integrating child eye health within primary health care: a case study. [PDF]
, 2017 Few children have access to specialised eye care in Tanzania. However, ten simple activities have been shown to reduce the risk of childhood blindness and eye disease dramatically.
Gilbert, Clare +2 more
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Journal of Education and Health Promotion, 2018 Introduction: Undiagnosed and uncorrected refractive errors in childhood can negatively affect the development of vision and cause students to have low academic success and even quit school before graduation.
Nukhet Kirag, Ayla Bayik Temel
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Microorganisms and Common Ophthalmic Diseases [PDF]
, 2017 The human eye is in constant contact to environmental conditions that increase its likelihood in being exposed to a multitude of pathogens. Studies have revealed that the normal microbial flora found around the ocular area contribute to the well-being of
Su CW, Tighe S
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