Copyright © 2017 by the American Academy of Pediatrics The American Academy of Pediatrics has endorsed the following publication: Children’s Eye Foundation. A Practical Guide for Primary Care Physicians: Instrument-Based Vision Screening In Children. Grapevine, TX: Children’s Eye Foundation; 2016. Available at: www. childrenseyefound ation. org/ see All statements of endorsement from the Americ...

Background: Childhood blindness is a major public health concern since 40% of visual disorders that can cause among children are preventable. Vision screening programs preschool have been implemented in several countries as tool for early detection and intervention disorders. In Palestine, there lack scientific data on the prevalence children. addition, vision-screening currently neither valida...

DESCRIPTION Update of the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendation on screening for impaired visual acuity in older adults. METHODS The USPSTF reviewed the evidence on screening for visual acuity impairment associated with uncorrected refractive error, cataracts, and age-related macular degeneration among adults 65 years or older in the primary care setting; the benefits and ...

INTRODUCTION Hearing and vision loss among long-term care (LTC) residents with dementia frequently goes unnoticed and untreated. Despite negative consequences for these residents, there is little information available about their sensory abilities and care assessments and practices seldom take these abilities or accessibility needs into account. Without adequate knowledge regarding such sensory...

PURPOSE The SVOne is a portable Hartmann-Shack wavefront aberrometer that can be attached to a smartphone to determine the refractive error of the eye objectively. The aim of the present study was to compare the findings of the SVOne with retinoscopy, subjective refraction, and two commercially available autorefractors (Topcon KR-1W and Righton Retinomax-3). METHODS Refractive error was asses...

METHODS Investigators reviewed websites of state departments of health and education, and legislation for all 50 states and DC. For states with mandated screenings and a required form, investigators applied structured analysis to assess HBL inclusion. RESULTS No state mandated that schools require screening for all 7 HBLs. Less than half (49%) required comprehensive school health examinations...

The operant preferential looking (OPL) procedure allows a behavioral estimate of visual acuity to be obtained from children 6 mo to 3 yr of age. In clinical settings, there is often too little time available to obtain an acuity estimate with the standard OPL procedure. The goal of this study was to identify specific spatial frequencies, termed diagnostic grating frequencies, that could enable t...

Vision screening is crucial for the detection of visual and systemic disorders. It should begin in the newborn nursery and continue throughout childhood. This clinical report provides details regarding methods for pediatricians to use for screening.

BACKGROUND The overall health, well-being, education, learning abilities, development of children, families, and communities can be affected by oral health. However in the developing nations, the importance of oral health in comparison to general health is minimal. The objective was to evaluate and compare the oral health problems in relation to general health problems of the same children by a...