School Health Examinations and Childhood Myopia

Educational Opportunities in School Health Examinations *

Much has recently been written about the educational functions of health examinations of school pupils. Studies have been concerned with the number of defects discovered and with the extent of their correction. While a major purpose of the examination may be the detection and relief of adverse conditions, action toward this end depends upon the understanding of parent and of pupil as well as up...

Childhood myopia and parental smoking.

AIM To examine the relation between exposure to passive parental smoke and myopia in Chinese children in Singapore. METHODS 1334 Chinese children from three schools in Singapore were recruited, all of whom were participants in the Singapore Cohort study Of the Risk factors for Myopia (SCORM). Information on whether the father or mother smoked, number of years smoked, and the number of cigaret...

Policy on Mandatory School-entrance Oral Health Examinations.

How genetic is school myopia?

Myopia is of diverse aetiology. A small proportion of myopia is clearly familial, generally early in onset and of high level, with defined chromosomal localisations and in some cases, causal genetic mutations. However, in economically developed societies, most myopia appears during childhood, particularly during the school years. The chromosomal localisations characterised so far for high famil...

Health in Childhood and Adolescence and High School Dropout