Preventing childhood blindness: Synergy between ophthalmology and community medicine

Community Ophthalmology Eye conditions and blindness in children: Priorities for research, programs, and policy with a focus on childhood cataract

Ophthalmology and general medicine.

This ophthalmological perspective of general medicine attempts to deal with the more common situations encountered clinically in general ophthalmic practice. Some priority has been given to the clinical usefulness of data. A comprehensive review would involve a wide range of rare conditions and has not been attempted. However, some mention of rarities is made in the context of important diVeren...

Preventing blindness: seeing is believing.

early detection and care of eye diseases results in preventable blindness. Loss of vision from all causes — especially diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, macular degeneration and cataracts — may not kill, but it is responsible for profound loss of quality of life. Costs to Canadians were estimated at $15.8 billion in 2009, and in subsequent years they will be substantially higher. Challenges world...

Ophthalmology in Persian medicine

Despite the fact that ophthalmology is one of the foremost branches of medicine, conceptualization of the structure and function of the eye barely advanced in ancient Western civilizations. At the early recovery of Persian civilization (9(th) century AD) after the extinction of the Sassanid Empire (7(th) century AD), translations of Greek medical textbooks played an important role in the develo...

Childhood blindness in Jamaica.

Examinations were performed on the 108 blind Jamaican children (VA less than 6/60 in the better eye) in residential care. The congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) was the leading preventable cause of childhood blindness, accounting for 22% of children examined. Improvement of the rubella immunisation programme and the introduction of appropriate surgical procedures constitute recent attempts to co...