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Modernizing and expanding universal eye care coverage after VISION 2020 [PDF]

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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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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Prevalence and causes of vision loss in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2015: magnitude, temporal trends and projections [PDF]

, 2019
Objective To estimate the prevalence and causes of blindness and vision impairment for distance and near in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) in 2015 and to forecast trends to 2020.
Wang, YX, Taylor, H, Dreer, L, Rossetti, L, West, S, Khanna, R, Wiedemann, P, Ackland, P, Taylor, HR, Gazzard, A, Tejedor, J, Cai, F, Bozkurt, B, Shen, T, Mansouri, K, Palaiou, M, Nangia, V, Hejtmancik, J, Javitt, J, Sitorus, RS, Varma, R, Tielsch, J, He, M, Cicinelli, MV, Ingram, A, Dandona, R, Hartnett, ME, Mathew, A, Budenz, D, Dandona, L, Lim, J, Ramulu, P, Leasher, JL, Joslin, C, Dekaris, I, Morse, A, Tsilimbaris, M, Shetty, R, Kempen, J, Flaxman, SR, Munoz, B, Meurs, J, Khairallah, M, Raju, M, Resnikoff, S, Dirani, M, Silva, JC, Lambrou, G, Furtado, JM, Stambolian, D, Volmink, J, Braithwaite, T, Das, A, Serle, J, Quigley, H, Congdon, N, Naidoo, K, Lansingh, VC, Hirai, F, Friedman, D, Wormald, R, Gichuhi, S, Topouzis, F, Wang, N-L, Pena, FY, Pesudovs, K, Saaddine, J, Frazier, M, Hammond, B, Gonzalez, V, Dana, R, Reza, D, Robin, A, Leasher, J, Bron, A, Bourne, RRA, Casson, R, Kim, J, Arditi, A, Del Monte, M, Virgili, G, Gao, H, Choi, J, Musch, D, Chakravarthy, U, Silvester, A, Zheng, Y, Sieving, P, Ellwein, L, Limburg, H, Deva, J, Parodi, MB, Wong, T, Keeffe, J, Jonas, J, Peto, T, Furtado, J, Barkana, Y, Bourne, R, George, R, Huang, J, Lanzetta, P, Frick, K, Sandar, M, Stevens, G   +104 more
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Prevalence of vision loss in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2020 : magnitudeand temporal trends [PDF]

Purpose: To estimate the prevalence of vision loss for 2020 in Latin America and the Caribbean(LAC) and analyse evolving trends since 1990.Methods: A meta-analysis using hierarchical models of 37 sources of 33 cross-sectional, popula-tion-representative ...
Rupert, R. A. Bourne, Lansingh, Van C., Vision Loss Expert Group of the Global Burden of Disease Study, Goulart, Bárbara Niegia Garcia de   +3 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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Screening older people for impaired vision [PDF]

A systematic review of trials about screening older people for visual impairment found no evidence that screening improved vision. We undertook a new trial nested within a larger cluster randomised trial of multidimensional ...
Smeeth, Liam
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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 outcomes for primary school children at risk of cerebral visual impairments (the CVI project):study protocol for the process evaluation of a feasibility cluster-randomised controlled trial [PDF]

, 2021
INTRODUCTION: Brain-related visual impairments, also known as cerebral visual impairment (CVI), are related to damage or poor function in the vision-related areas of the brain.
Pease, Anna, Anna Pease, Trudy Goodenough, Parisa Sinai, Sinai, Parisa, Breheny, Katie, Cathy Williams, Williams, Cathy, Katie Breheny, Goodenough, Trudy, Watanabe, Rose, Rose Watanabe   +11 more
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Sustainable Developmental Goals (SDGs) and Eye Health Care in Nepal

, 2018
In 2015, the United Nations (UN) adopted the resolution of transforming our world by the year 2030 through the agenda of Sustainable Development with a primary focus on strengthening universal peace with larger freedom [United Nations 2015, Griggs D 2012]
Rajiv Khandekar
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