BACKGROUND The majority of vision loss is preventable or treatable. Population surveys are crucial for planning, implementation, and monitoring policies and interventions to eliminate avoidable blindness and visual impairments. This is the first rapid assessment of avoidable blindness (RAAB) study in Thailand. METHODS A cross-sectional study of a population in Thailand age 50 years old or ove...

AIMS To assess the relation between a country's economic developmental status and its prevalence of blindness. METHODS Available epidemiological data on worldwide visual loss and its causes compiled by the World Health Organization were reviewed. Findings were compared with economic development data from the involved countries and regions. Analysis was completed in view of the socioeconomic s...

Maluku is one of the provinces with a fairly high blindness rate in Indonesia. The prevalence was 2.6%, according to Rapid Assessment Avoidable Blindness (RAAB) between 2013 and 2017. Some causes are cases uncorrected refraction, cataracts, pterygium, glaucoma, diseases posterior segment eye. This study aims determine characteristics eye recorded Masohi Hospital, Central Maluku. uses quantitati...

Globally, 32.4 million people (95% CI 29.4 to 36.5 million people; 60% women) were blind in 2010, and 191 million people (95% CI 174 to 230 million people; 57% women) had moderate or severe visual impairment (MSVI). The most common cause of blindness is cataract, which contributes to about 48% of all blindness in the world. ‘VISION 2020: The Right to Sight’ is a global initiative that aims to e...

Background: Objective of the research was to study prevalence blindness in adult patients coming a tertiary eye care centre Western Uttar Pradesh and assess their causes. Methods: A cross-sectional conducted on outpatient department over period 3 months 375 were identified as having blindness. Complete ophthalmological examination find out cause for same. Results: The found be 4.096%. major cau...

OBJECTIVE To assess the burden of posterior segment eye diseases (PSEDs) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). METHODS We reviewed published population-based data from SSA and other relevant populations on the leading PSED, specifically glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration, as causes of blindness and visual impairment in adults. Data were extracted from population-based ...

INTRODUCTION We performed an analytic and prospective study over a period of 12 months from January 2nd to December 31st, 2008, at the Gynaeco-Obstetric and Paediatric Hospital of Yaoundé, Cameroon. Our aim was to determine the prevalence and causes of unilateral blindness in school children aged 6 to 15 years. RESULTS Among the 1,266 children aged 6 to 15 years who were recruited, 60 present...

Background: Blindness, which is potentially avoidable, is a serious public health problem globally. This study was carried out to determine prevalence of bilateral blindness and the utilization of existing eye care facilities by the bilaterally blind. Methods: A randomized cross sectional community-based study. Participants were community members aged 5years and above who were selected from 30 ...

PURPOSE Determine causes of blindness and visual impairment among adults aged >or=40 years. METHODS Multistage, stratified, cluster random sampling with probability proportional to size procedures were used to identify a nationally representative sample of 15,027 persons >or=40 years of age. Distance vision was measured with a reduced logMAR tumbling E-chart. Clinical examination included a b...