Improving access Before person-centred eye care can start, eye health services must be made accessible to all. This can be done by finding out about community needs, encouraging people to come for eye services, and making the service child friendly and accessible to older people and those with low vision, other disabilities, and mobility impairments. Previous issues of the Community Eye Health ...

Most of studies on the video communications are based on an unproved hypothesis: They take it granted that the full-face images of communicators are the 'sine qua non' in video conversations, and profiles are rather confusing or annoying for them. This paper proves the counter hypothesis that profile images are also useful and they can replace the full-faces under some conditions. Psychological...

We carried out a randomized controlled trial in Bogotá, the recipient of Colombia's highest number of internally displaced people (IDP), to assess whether the use of SMS to communicate eligibility to social benefits fosters the welfare of victimized internal refugees. Only a fraction of IDP are eligible to benefits. We inform eligibility via SMS to a random half of such households, and estimate...

T elimination of health disparities in the United States is a national priority and overriding goal for Healthy People 2010 (HP 2010). Surveillance of health indicators among minority populations is essential to eliminating disparities. Surveillance is critical for program planning, policy making, evaluating population-based strategies, and tracking progress toward national and state objectives.

Without any doubt, mouse and keyboard are the most prevalent and important human-computer interfaces. Unfortunately, people with physical disabilities cannot enjoy benefits provided by computers as able-bodies people on equal term since conventional mouse and keyboard are designed with the able-bodies in mind. Therefore, how to lower or even tear down the barriers between computers and people w...

Use of colour, contrast, and lighting • Use large, clear letters for all the signs in the department. Ensure there is good overall illumination and avoid creating glare, which could be caused by using shiny white tiles on the floor and walls. For signs, use colours with high contrast, e.g., white or yellow lettering on a black or dark background Before you make any changes, make sure people wit...