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Human resources and infrastructure for ophthalmic services in India: Results from the National Survey [PDF]

Indian Journal of Ophthalmology
Purpose: The current study was performed to determine the human resources (HR) and infrastructure available for providing ophthalmic services from the existing secondary and tertiary level hospitals in India and to assess the achievement of targets ...
Praveen Vashist, Souvik Manna, Vivek Gupta, Noopur Gupta, Rohit Saxena, Surbhi Agrawal, Amit Bhardwaj, Suraj Singh Senjam, Namrata Sharma, Radhika Tandon   +9 more
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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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Modernizing and expanding universal eye care coverage after VISION 2020

Voices in Bioethics, 2020
Photo by Wesley Tingey on Unsplash INTRODUCTION On February 18, 1999, the World Health Organization launched VISION 2020 to eliminate preventable, treatable blindness by 2020.[1] Today, low-income nations continue to lack access to prevention-based
Megan Yu
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Integrating Primary Eye Care with Primary Health Care Services in India: Perspectives and Learnings to Strengthen Primary Healthcare Systems in India

Indian Journal of Public Health
Background: Vision impairment and blindness are major public health challenges, especially in low- and middle-income countries. Although the prevalence of blindness in India has reduced considerably, untreated cataract still remains a public health ...
Ayesha Siddiqua Nawaz, Divya Rao, Shailendra Kumar B. Hegde, Pachava Vengal Rao, Devika Chadha, Aakash Ashok Raikwar   +5 more
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Eye health in post-conflict and climate-vulnerable settings: Iraq as a case study for equitable, integrated primary eye care

AJO International
Purpose: Vision impairment affects one in four individuals globally, disproportionately affecting low- and middle-income countries, particularly in conflict- and climate-affected settings. This brief communication uses Iraq as a case study to examine how
Fatma Shakarchi
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Improving access to refractive and eye health services

Community Eye Health Journal, 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
Luigi Bilotto, Michael Morton, Luisa Casas Luque, Rob Terry, Judith Stern, Kesi Naidoo   +5 more
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A Tanahashi Coverage Cascade Analysis of Diabetes Care in Saudi Arabia (2016–2021): A Narrative Review

Preventive Medicine: Research & Reviews
Diabetes affects nearly a quarter of adults in Saudi Arabia (SA) and costs primary healthcare centres around 35 million USD annually. Despite initiatives like the National Diabetes Registry and Vision 2030’s Model of Care, limited evidence exists on the ...
Sulafa T. Alqutub
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Getting ready to cope with non-communicable eye diseases

Community Eye Health Journal, 2014
Over the last few decades, the main focus of eye care in low- and middle-income countries has been on the two most common causes of visual impairment: cataract and refractive errors.
Clare Gilbert, Serge Resnikoff
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Tackling inequality and inequity in eye health: can the SDGs help us?

Community Eye Health Journal, 2016
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in September 2015. They are a set of goals and targets that all UN member states have committed to achieving: ‘to end poverty, protect the planet, and ...
Zoe Gray
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Inequality and inequity in eye health

Community Eye Health Journal, 2016
According to the 2010 Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study, the global prevalence of blindness (age-standardised) has declined from 0.60% in 1990 to 0.47% in 2010.
Johannes Trimmel
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