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WEB02 May 2024. Hyperopia: a practical introduction. 23 April 2024. Talking to patients about their new spectacles. 18 April 2024. What can we do about myopia? An evidence-informed approach. 21 March 2024. Free, up-to-date, and relevant eye care information for health care providers working in low- and middle-income countries.
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Accessing good health information and resources
WEBHealth workers need to be able to access health information and resources to update and apply their knowledge and skills and continue their professional development. Making health information available and usable to all is a complex process not yet adequately addressed (see Figure 1). It has to be appropriate, high quality, timely, easy to
What is primary eye health care
WEBWHO defines primary health care as a “whole-of- society approach to health that aims to maximise the level and distribution of health and well-being through three components: a. Primary care and essential public health functions as the core of integrated health services. b. Multisectoral policy and action. c. Empowered people and communities.”.
Community Eye Health Journal » Primary eye health care
WEBThe majority of eye conditions can be dealt with at primary health care level – in the communities where people live and work. However, eye care is often missing or not integrated at this level of health care. This issue of the Community Eye Health Journal shares best practices and approaches for integrating eye care…
Delivering primary eye care in the 21st century
WEBThe changing epidemiology of eye conditions calls for reimagining primary eye health care services with strong referral linkages. The World Health Organization (WHO) made a clear, strong call for equity in health care in the ambitious Alma-Ata Declaration (1978), which recognised primary health care as an essential means to …
Community Eye Health Journal » The Lancet Global Health …
WEBMore than 70 leading figures from 25 countries have contributed to the Lancet Global Health Commission on Global Eye Health – a wide-ranging report synthesising new and existing research across many aspects of eye health which was published in April 2021. This article series will look at the findings of the Commission in more depth, starting with …
Community Eye Health Journal » Current issue
WEBThe poster on page 23 ‘ Important messages for eye health in babies and young children ‘ can be downloaded from the ‘Useful resources’ section of the Journal website. Children need good vision from birth until the age of 7 years to ensure that their brains develop the visual pathways that will lead to healthy adult vision. Anything that
Community Eye Health Journal » About us
WEBAbout us. The Community Eye Health Journal (international edition) is a quarterly publication sent free to over 22,000 health care providers worldwide, mainly in low and middle-income countries. Our total readership is approximately 35,000 when our French, Indian, Chinese and Spanish editions are included. 16,000 of our readers work in Africa.
Primary eye care: the WHO perspective
WEBThe call to integrate eye care into primary health care. The view of WHO on the importance of strengthening the integration of eye care within primary health care could not be clearer. In October 2019, WHO launched the first World Report on Vision, with a key recommendation being to reorient the model of care based on strong primary health care.
Delivering eye health promotion: why and how
WEBHealth promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and improve, their health. 3 Even when there is a good health system in place, three more factors are needed to ensure that people are healthy and have a good sense of wellbeing: A healthy environment for people to live and work in.
What is comprehensive school eye health
WEBEducation has the potential to change individuals’ lives and fuel social transformation. There is a strong link between children’s health, including their visual health, and the quality of their learning and achievement at school. This, in turn, affects children’s future quality of life and economic productivity. School eye health …
Inequality and inequity in eye health
WEBInequity can be understood as a reflection of multidimensional poverty which, besides income poverty, includes poor health, low levels of education, lack of water and sanitation, an unhealthy or unsafe residential environment, insecurity and violence, social exclusion, lack of participation, disempowerment, a lack of self-esteem, and more.
How China is responding to the challenge of myopia
WEBIn 2019, the overall childhood myopia rate fell to 50.2% (from 53.6% in 2018). However, due to COVID, the rate increased to 52.7% in 2020, still achieving the target of an annual reduction of 0.5% in the first two years of the plan. 6 Despite the many challenges posed by the current pandemic, and the very significant complexities involved in
Community Eye Health Journal » Abstracts
WEBDeaths and injuries caused by landmines in Mozambique Alberto Ascherio, Robin Biellik, Andy Epstein, Gail Snetro, Steve Gloyd, Barbara Ayotte, Paul R Epstein Landmines in Mozambique are still causing death and injuries years after the initial dispute. Since 1980, 3400 people have had an amputation because of landmine injuries. However, there are …
The role of optometry in VISION 2020
WEBThe global initiative, VISION 2020: The Right to Sight, established by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness, has created valuable and effective collaborations of organisations involved in a wide range of eyecare and community healthcare activities aimed at the elimination of …
Importance of integrating eye health into school health initiatives
WEBThe Indian Government has a strong commitment to school health programmes, including eye health. Since 1994, school eye testing is an integral part of the National Programme for Control of Blindness (NPCB). 13 Under the national programme, which is implemented through District Health Societies (DHS), 7,57,906 pairs of spectacles were provided …
sTRABIsMUs Understanding, detecting, and managing …
WEBThe four rectus muscles move the eyes up, down, to the right, and to the left, and the two oblique muscles have more complex actions, helping the eyes to look down and in (towards the tip of the nose) or up and in (towards the bridge of the nose). Three different cranial nerves are involved in the contraction and relax-ation of these muscles
Community Eye Health Journal » Managing information in eye …
WEBSteps for developing or improving an HMIS (Adapted from Developing health management information systems: a practical guide for developing countries by WHO Western Pacific Region) . 1. Review the existing system. Make an inventory of the forms, log books and other tools used to record and summarise data at different levels.
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