Managing the myopia epidemic and digital eye strain post COVID-19 pandemic – What eye care practitioners need to know and implement?

Corneal grafting: what eye care workers need to know

COMMUnIty EyE HEaLtH JOURnaL | VOL 22 ISSUE 71 | DECEMBER 2009 Introduction We know that many of the most common causes of corneal blindness: vitamin A deficiency, trachoma, and ophthalmia neonatorum, can be prevented by simple primary health care measures. Some conditions are more difficult to prevent, but can be effectively treated, such as suppurative keratitis (page 39) or herpes simplex ke...

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): What we need to know (In Press)

The Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on Health Higher Education: Challenges, Approaches and Achievements to Post Covid-19

Introduction: Covid- 19 pandemic has caused challenges in Health higher education system. In order to manage these challenges, policies have been recommended, which most of those can be applied in the post- Covid- 19 era. The purpose of this study is to investigate challenges, approaches and achievements in Health higher education system, due to Covid- 19 pandemic. Method: The method of this st...

Pandemic and seasonal flu: what you need to know.

What is pandemic flu? Sometimes new strains of flu may appear that people have little or no immunity to. When this happens, the virus can spread easily between people and cause an outbreak on a global scale — a pandemic. For example, the 2009 H1N1 swine flu was considered a pandemic flu. Although flu pandemics are rare, they can have severe consequences, including high rates of worker absenteei...

Efficiency and its measurement: what practitioners need to know.

OBJECTIVE To help health professionals understand and evaluate the concept of efficiency and its measurement in practice. STUDY DESIGN We reviewed conceptual and practical analyses of healthcare efficiency and its measurement and describe our findings. METHODS We searched the following 3 sources: the MEDLINE and EconLit databases for articles published from 1990 to 2008 using the keywords e...