Add to ORKGStates and all agencies involved in the prevention of blindness and preserving the sight have joined together and launched a global initiative called “Vision 2020 – the Right to Sight”. This initiative is an outcome of the realisation that the number of blind would double by the year 2020 at current service levels and that over 80 % of the blindness is avoidable- curable or preventable. Thus the aim of this initiative is to eliminate needless blindness by the year 2020. Amongst the various disease control priorities under the Vision 2020 global initiative, the one that cuts across all regions is blindness and vision impairment caused by refractive errors. Refractive error can be simply diagnosed, measured and corrected with spectacles. The ...
Eye health and vision have widespread and profound implications for many aspects of life, health, su...
The major goal of Vision 2020: The Right to Sight is to make high quality eye care services availabl...
The major causes of blindness in children vary widely from region to region, being largely determine...
Vision 2020; the right to sight was conceived in Geneva in 1999. The initiative has brought about re...
The global initiative, Vision 2020: The Right to Sight, established by the World Health Organization...
collaborations of organisations involved in a wide range of eyecare and community healthcare activit...
Background: Visual sciences have been progressing quickly in recent decades through globalization ph...
Millions of people need eyeglasses and do not have them. Assuming that the average pair of eyeglasse...
According to the World Health Organisation(WHO) categories of visual impairment, the available data ...
In the year 2004 there were an estimated 220,000-320,000 people in The Netherlands with visual impai...
In the late 1990s, two papers from very different parts of the world, Australia and India, highlight...
Uncorrected refractive error is the leading cause of visual impairment. The societal costs of this i...
INTRODUCTION: Recent data suggest that there are 37 million blind people and 124 million with low vi...
The impact of visual loss has profound implications for the person affected and society as a whole. ...
Worldwide, there are over 640 million people who are vision impaired, simply because they do not hav...
Eye health and vision have widespread and profound implications for many aspects of life, health, su...
The major goal of Vision 2020: The Right to Sight is to make high quality eye care services availabl...
The major causes of blindness in children vary widely from region to region, being largely determine...
Vision 2020; the right to sight was conceived in Geneva in 1999. The initiative has brought about re...
The global initiative, Vision 2020: The Right to Sight, established by the World Health Organization...
collaborations of organisations involved in a wide range of eyecare and community healthcare activit...
Background: Visual sciences have been progressing quickly in recent decades through globalization ph...
Millions of people need eyeglasses and do not have them. Assuming that the average pair of eyeglasse...
According to the World Health Organisation(WHO) categories of visual impairment, the available data ...
In the year 2004 there were an estimated 220,000-320,000 people in The Netherlands with visual impai...
In the late 1990s, two papers from very different parts of the world, Australia and India, highlight...
Uncorrected refractive error is the leading cause of visual impairment. The societal costs of this i...
INTRODUCTION: Recent data suggest that there are 37 million blind people and 124 million with low vi...
The impact of visual loss has profound implications for the person affected and society as a whole. ...
Worldwide, there are over 640 million people who are vision impaired, simply because they do not hav...
Eye health and vision have widespread and profound implications for many aspects of life, health, su...
The major goal of Vision 2020: The Right to Sight is to make high quality eye care services availabl...
The major causes of blindness in children vary widely from region to region, being largely determine...