The Global Initiative — Vision 2020: The Right to Sight was officially launched on 18 February 1999 with the endorsement of Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director-General, World Health Organization. The mission of Vision 2020 is to eliminate the main causes of blindness in order to give all people of the world, particularly the millions of needlessly blind, the right to sight by the year 2020. In t...

The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center (UNMHSC) adopted a new Vision to work with community partners to help New Mexico make more progress in health and health equity than any other state by 2020. UNMHSC recognized it would be more successful in meeting communities' health priorities if it better aligned its own educational, research, and clinical missions with their needs. Nationa...

[*] Dr. M. Gysemans, Prof. J. Snauwaert, Prof. C. Van Haesendonck Laboratory of Solid-State Physics and Magnetism Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Celestijnenlaan 200 D, BE-3001 Leuven (Belgium) E-mail: [email protected] F. Leroux, Prof. S. Bals, Prof. G. Van Tendeloo EMAT, University of Antwerp Groenenborgerlaan 171, BE-2020 Antwerp (Belgium) E-mail: [email protected] Dr. K....

are calling for a care system that encompasses health, quality of life, and a relationship with their providers. The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine’s Strategic Plan for 2011–20151 and Healthy People 2020 2 prioritize enhancing physical and mental health and wellness, preventing disease, and empowering the public to take responsibility for their health. The vision of ...

COMMUNITY EYE HEALTH JOURNAL | VOLUME 30 | NUMBER 100 | 2017 The control of blindness in children is a priority of VISION 2020, a global initiative with the goal of eliminating avoidable blindness by the year 2020. Many of the causes of visual loss in children in lowand middle-income countries are preventable; the most common of which are vitamin A deficiency, measles, conjunctivitis of the new...

A vision for the requirements of a CRIS in 2020 is presented. It forms part of an e-infrastructure ICT environment for the whole domain of research. The history of CRIS is analysed to pick out key developments and the barriers to achieving the vision are addressed. A plan is proposed to meet the vision, overcoming the barriers and utilising expected developments in ICT. The key is CERIF used as...