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Integration of Refractive Services Provided by Optometrists into the Portuguese National Health Service

Portuguese Journal of Public Health, 2023
Introduction: Refractive error is a public health concern and even with relatively simple and cost-effective interventions it remains usually outside national health services (NHSs) not ensuring universal health coverage.
Vera L. Alves Carneiro, José Manuel González-Méijome   +1 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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JAMA Ophthalmol [PDF]

, 2009
IMPORTANCERoutine eye care is important to maintaining eye health and preventing visual impairment. However, poor knowledge of ocular risk factors and disease as well as minimal exposure to eye health information may compromise adherence to eye care ...
Lumbawati, Eko
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Family refusal of eye tissue donation from potential solid organ donors: a retrospective analysis of summary and free-text data from the UK National Health Service Blood and Transplant Services (NHS-BT) National Referral Centre (1 April 2014 to 31 March 2017)

BMJ Open, 2021
Objectives Long-standing undersupply of eye tissue exists both in the UK and globally, and the UK National Health Service Blood and Transplant Service (NHSBT) has called for further research exploring barriers to eye donation.
M. Bracher, B. C. Madi-Segwagwe, Emma Winstanley, H. Gillan, T. Long-Sutehall   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Inhibiting stearoyl‐CoA desaturase suppresses bone metastatic prostate cancer by modulating cellular stress, mTOR signaling, and DNA damage response

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Bone metastasis in prostate cancer (PCa) patients is a clinical hurdle due to the poor understanding of the supportive bone microenvironment. Here, we identify stearoyl‐CoA desaturase (SCD) as a tumor‐promoting enzyme and potential therapeutic target in bone metastatic PCa.
Alexis Wilson, Mackenzie K Herroon, Shane Mecca, Laimar C Garmo, Jacob Lindquist, Shrila Rajendran, Steve M. Patrick, Izabela Podgorski   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Diabetes‐induced vascular calcification is associated with low pyrophosphate and its oral supplementation prevents calcification in diabetic mice

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Induction of diabetes in three different mouse strains uniformly resulted in an increase in TNAP activity and a reduction in pyrophosphate (PPi) in the circulation. Inhibition of TNAP restored plasma PPi. Diabetes‐induced calcification in the media layer of the aorta was detected only in the Abcc6−/− strain, which is predisposed to ectopic ...
Krisztina Fülöp, Eszter Kozák, Natália Tőkési, Lilian Kocsis, Anikó Kelemen, Zsuzsanna Geszti, Adriána Kutás, Mariann Harangi, Ágnes Diószegi, Zsolt Rapi, József Balla, Olivier Le Saux, András Váradi, Viola Pomozi   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing the capacity of primary health care facilities in Nigeria to deliver eye health promotion: Results of a mixed-methods feasibility study

PLOS Global Public Health, 2022
Over 25 million people in sub-Saharan Africa are blind or visually impaired, the majority from avoidable causes. Health promotion and disease prevention are important strategies for eye health, through good governance, health literacy and increasing ...
Ada Aghaji, Helen E. D. Burchett, Shaffa Hameed, Clare Gilbert   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Integrating eye health into policy: Evidence for health systems strengthening in KwaZulu-Natal

African Vision and Eye Health, 2020
Background: Available evidence is that eye health care receives less attention compared to other allied health professions in public health services across South Africa, yet vision impairment is known to have significant social and economic consequences.
Lungile M. Buthelezi, Diane van Staden
doaj   +1 more source

Health Savings Account - Eligible High Deductible Health Plans: Updating the Definition of Prevention [PDF]

, 2014
High-deductible health plans (HDHPs) are an important and growing part of the health insurance landscape. By some estimates, as many as 80 percent of large employers may offer an HDHP in 2014.
A. Mark Fendrick, Elizabeth Q. Cliff, Kaden Milkovich, Kathryn Spangler, M. Richard McKellar, Michael Chernew, Stephen Parents   +6 more
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