purpose: to determine the prevalence and causes of blindness and low vision in tehran province in 2005. methods: a population-based cross-sectional study was carried out involving all habitants living in tehran province in 2005. the study design was according to the world health organization recommendation methods and also a pilot study preformed among rural and urban areas of karaj. it was a m...

Scenario building is a technique to stimulate different perspectives and images on the future. This technique allows to better predict the evolution of a certain domain beyond short-term forecasting based on the scenarios developed. The EC co-funded project eGovRTD2020 aims to develop scenarios of e-government in 2020 and beyond. The vision is to transform the EC government landscape into a coh...

In April 2004, The Eye Disease Prevalence Research Group published a series of articles that included age-specific estimates for the prevalence of low vision and blindness in whites, African Americans, and Hispanics living in the United States. Also included were age-, sex-, and ethnic-specific incidences of the following age-related eye diseases: diabetic retinopathy, macular degeneration, cat...

World health organization (WHO) and International agency for the prevention of blindness (IAPB) along with local Governmental and Non-Governmental partners lunched a global initiative for elimination of avoidable blindness in the late 1990s with an aim to eliminate avoidable blindness by the year 2020. World sight day is observed on the second Thursday of October to highlight the plight of peop...

OBJECTIVE to evaluate the clinical outcomes of a publicly funded cataract elimination program. METHODS outcomes of all patients (186) who received extracapsular cataract extraction (ECCE) surgery free of charge at the Instituto Regional de Oftalmología in northern Peru in the first year (August 2008 to July 2009) of the Peruvian National Cataract Elimination Plan were compared retrospectively...