Blindness Prevention

Genetics and prevention of blindness.

PURPOSE To verify the perception of Brazilian ophthalmologists regarding the role played by Genetics in their routine medical activity and their conduct when dealing with patients, with hereditary diseases who need genetic counseling. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was conducted by means of invitations to participate in an interview on this subject. The questionnaires were sent to 200 ophth...

National prevention of blindness programmes.

A: A key part of VISION 2020 is devolving decision making and planning to district level — the idea of planning services for units of one million people. Generally, when we have tried to plan for larger populations, we have not been successful. This has led some people to question whether national prevention of blindness programmes have any role in VISION 2020. Well managed national programmes ...

Prevention of Blindness Free Papers

The role of WHO in blindness prevention.

The World Health Organization’s concern about the huge health problem posed by blindness is as old as the Organization itself. But it was the compilation of data on blindness for publication in WHO’s E@icZemiological and Vital Stattitics Report in 1966 which made it possible for the broad global scene to be appreciated. Four years later, a questionnaire addressed by the Organization to its Memb...

The Causes, Care, and Prevention of Blindness

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