World Sight Day and cataract blindness

World Sight Day: Singapore's contribution to alleviating corneal blindness.

world sight day 2013 memorandum - farabi statement on the prevention of blindness and eye health

the world sight day (wsd) is held on the 2nd thursday of october to emphasize the importance of sight and impact of vision impairment. this observance is a joint initiative of the international agency for the prevention of blindness (iapb), the world health organization (who) and other international non-governmental organizations.1   the celebration resonates with vision 2020 initiative for the...

High-Fidelity Cataract Surgery Simulation and Third World Blindness

The burden of global cataract blindness continues to rise, because the number of surgical ophthalmologists is insufficient, and they are unevenly distributed. There is an urgent need to train surgeons quickly and comprehensively in high-quality, low-cost cataract removal techniques. The authors suggest manual small-incision cataract surgery as a safe alternative to phacoemulsification cataract ...

The Ontological Treatment of Sight and Blindness

There have been relatively few attempts to represent sight or blindness ontologically. This is unsurprising as the related phenomena of sight and blindness are surprisingly difficult to represent ontologically for a variety of reasons. This paper discusses those reasons, explores the current attempts to represent sight or blindness, and how these attempts fail at representing certain types of b...

Blindness, fear of sight loss, and suicide.

Numerous studies have examined the emotional impact exerted by sight loss. Research has tended to focus on clinical-diagnostic rather than therapeutic-preventive aspects. Blindness and sight restoration have been reported to induce both temporary and longer term psychopathology, usually followed by psychosocial readjustment. However, in some cases, readjustment may not occur and suicide may res...