The encouraging scenario of international efforts to eliminate preventable and avoidable blindness is the legacy of public health ophthalmology in the 20th century. With active programs currently in place or beginning for the major cause of blindness in childhood and two of the leading infectious causes of blindness, it is natural that research in eye disease will shift even more heavily toward...

The changing demographic pattern of visual impairment VISION 2020 and the prevention of visual impairment are moving into the political and public spotlight. Recent WHO discussions on the growing incidence of chronic, age-related, non-communicable diseases indicate that visual health and its preservation are now receiving attention. Recent publications illustrate the changing demographic patter...

Over the last 20 years, much has been achieved in controlling blindness in children. Prior to the launch of VISION 2020, a number of international initiatives and programmes had raised the profile and increased interventions for child health and survival, which also had a positive impact on eye diseases and blindness in children, e.g. the Expanded Programme for Immunisation (EPI )(1974) and the...

This is a review of the major publications from the Nigeria national blindness survey in order to highlight major findings and challenges of eye care in Nigeria. The review summarizes methodology and key findings. Survey publications on methodology, prevalence and causes of visual impairment and outcome of cataract surgery were retrieved, reviewed and relevant data extracted, reported and discu...

Background: Globally visual impairment is a serious public health, social and economic problem, 1.1 billion people are visually disabled. India has 12 million blind people. Studies conducted so far have highlighted mainly the medical aspects of blindness. With intention to study medico-social blindness in current was undertaken two institutes for Pune.Methods: It cross sectional descriptive usi...

© 2015 Journal of ophthalmic and Vision research | published by Wolters KluWer medKnoW Sir, Blindness has been defined as visual acuity of less than 3/60 in Snellen’s chart or inability to count fingers in daylight at a distance of three meters.[1] In 2010 alone, 285 million people are found to be visually impaired worldwide, of whom close to 90% were from developing nations.[2,3] Visual impair...

Background: Low vision and blindness have significant implications, resulting in a generally reduced quality of life amongst the sufferers. Aim: To determine prevalence causes low learners at Akropong School for Blind. Setting: The study was conducted Blind, Ghana. Methods: A cross-sectional design used. Eye examinations included measurements presenting distance visual acuity (PDVA) with Tumbli...

Visual disability, particularly in children, can lead to a high mortality, economic loss and burden to the individual, family, community and the nation as a whole (Holden 2007; Roberts, Hiratsuka et al. 2010). Approximately 30,240 children are estimated to be blind in Nepal (Apex Body for Eye Health, Ministry of Health and Population, Nepal, 2011). One of the reasons of this high number might b...

Background: To determine the cost of conducting a rapid assessment avoidable blindness survey in Andhra Pradesh State, India. RAAB is simple methodology that can provide data on prevalence and causes visual impairment. As per manual published by international centre for eye health, ICEH London United Kingdom doing was US $ 20000 to 30000. No were available regarding required India or from any o...