Oral health is an essential component of good health and good oral health is a fundamental human right; the role of FDI World Dental Federation and the dental profession is to help the public and decision makers achieve health through good oral health. This is why FDI and its member associations must be in the forefront on issues related to oral health, to identify challenges and opportunities ...

In order to enhance the active life of senior professionals, one fundamental challenge is to identify ways to assist promoting the role of elder people within the continuously ageing European society. This paper proposes a vision for establishing required support environment for communities of active senior professionals, and provision of fundamental ICT tools for senior professionals to contin...

We applaud the authors and editors of this second issue of the Medical Hypothesis, Discovery, and Innovation Ophthalmology Journal in 2013 for presenting new research and innovative ideas on the vast array of issues and diseases related to ocular health. In its scope as a peer-reviewed journal, it covers articles and studies from leading causes of preventable blindness to promising advanced med...

Introduction The DLC Faculty Recruitment Subcommittee (Jeffrey Gray and James Calvin, co-chairs, Namandje Bumpus, Irene Ferguson, Pam McCann, Allison Boyle, and Lynne Jones) focused on issues of faculty recruitment and retention. Priority Six in the University’s TEN x 2020: A Vision for Johns Hopkins University through the year 2020 is to “Attract the very best faculty and staff in the world th...

1 2 Neurometabolic coupling in the lateral geniculate nucleus changes 3 with extended age 4 Baowang Li and Ralph D. Freeman* 5 Group in Vision Science, School of Optometry, Helen Wills Neurosciences Institute, 6 University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-2020 7 *Correspondence to: 8 Ralph D. Freeman 9 360 Minor Hall, University of California at Berkeley 10 Berkeley, CA 94720-2020 11 freeman@n...

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) play a key role in Development & Economic growth of the Developing countries of the World. Political, Cultural, Socio-economic Developmental & Behavioral decisions today rests on the ability to access, gather, analyze and utilize Information and Knowledge. Government of India is having an ambitious objective of transforming the citizen-governmen...

PURPOSE To define surveillance approaches and metrics to capture the burden of vision health disparities and to identify properties of a surveillance system to guide public health interventions. DESIGN Expert panel. METHODS Analysis of relevant literature and deliberations of expert panel. RESULTS The panel identified that the purpose of vision surveillance was to link data to public heal...

We are excited to introduce 2 special issues in the Journal that feature articles relevant to direct access physical therapist practice. The rationale for covering these topics in the physical therapy literature is clear: the American Physical Therapy Association’s (APTA’s) Vision 2020 states that, ‘‘By 2020, physical therapy will be provided by physical therapists who are doctors of physical t...

The purpose of this article is to highlight the challenge of uncorrected refractive error globally, as well as to discuss recent advocacy successes and innovative programs designed to address the need for broader refractive error service development, particularly in developing countries. The World Health Organization's VISION 2020: The Right to Sight program first posed the challenge to nationa...