Community Eye Health Journal – promoting improvement in eye health for over 20 years
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established in 1988 and is published by the International Centre for Eye Health, based at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. It has editions in French, Chinese, and Spanish, and there is a special edition for India. Paper copies of the journal, in all four languages, are sent to over 35,000 people in 183 countries (see map). We would like to thank everyone who completed our recent reader survey. Here is a brief summary of the results.
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Economic Inequality in Eye Care Utilization and its Determinants: A Blinder–Oaxaca Decomposition
Background The current study aimed to determine eye care utilization, to assess the role of economic inequality in the utilization of eye care services, and to identify its determinants in Shahroud, North of Iran. Methods Of the 6,311 invited people, 5,190 (82.24%) individuals aged 40 to 64 years old participated in the study. A history of a visit by an ophthalmologist or optometrist was cons...
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impairment Changing demography When the Community Eye Health Journal was launched in 1988, the world population was approximately 5.1 billion. Over the last 20 years, it has increased by approximately 30%, reaching 6.7 billion in 2008. During the same period, the world population has also become proportionally older, as the number of people aged 65 years and over has increased by approximately ...
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Over just a six-year period from 2005-2011, five aid effectiveness initiatives were launched: the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (2005), the International Health Partnership plus (2007), the Accra Agenda for Action (2008), the Busan Partnership for Effective Cooperation (2011), and the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC) (2011). More recently, in 2015, the A...
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Background: Uncontrolled hypertension and diabetes in truckers can negatively affect their work performance. This paper analyses the first-year data of an eye care program for truckers to assess their need for hypertension and diabetes screening. Materials and Method: In this cross-sectional study, data were collected via eye camps for truckers held between July 2017 and June 2018. Truckers wh...
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