Sacred Heart University’s nursing students of the undergraduate and graduate level, along with the University’s faculty and community healthcare providers travel to Kingston, Jamaica annually to provide medical care to impoverished populations. During this one-week clinical experience, a health promotion project that students focus on is testing the population for hyperopia, dispensing reading glasses, and observing the conditions that may be leading to various visual conditions in the Caribbean. As the project began two years ago with much success, plans for expansion to improve visual impairments in the population served include early interventions for cataract prevention, continual dispensing of reading glasses, and collection and dissem...
Exciting solutions are being developed to combat the huge increase in childhood myopia that had beco...
Volunteer eye/vision care projects to Third World\u27\u27 countries have become more common in rece...
Eye health and vision have widespread and profound implications for many aspects of life, health, su...
Sacred Heart University’s nursing students of the undergraduate and graduate level, along with the U...
Eye health promotion is vital for supporting the health and wellbeing of eye patients and the commun...
Given the current health care climate, it is critical for nurse educators to provide learning opport...
In many developing countries, access to medical care and screenings are difficult, and this is espec...
Avoidable blindness is an important global public health concern. This study aimed to assess Trinida...
According to the WHO about 831 million people are visually impaired worldwide, 45 million of them ar...
Over 25 million people in sub-Saharan Africa are blind or visually impaired, the majority from avoid...
Globally, the environmental health discipline is rapidly being recognized as a critical science-base...
The Mozambique Eyecare Project was an international partnership to implement and research eye health...
Flying Eye Hospital As a teacher... It provides a space to train doctors, nurses and biomedical te...
Education has the potential to change individuals’ lives and fuel social transformation. There is a ...
To examine child eye health, in particular, visual impairment (VI), uncorrected refractive error (UR...
Exciting solutions are being developed to combat the huge increase in childhood myopia that had beco...
Volunteer eye/vision care projects to Third World\u27\u27 countries have become more common in rece...
Eye health and vision have widespread and profound implications for many aspects of life, health, su...
Sacred Heart University’s nursing students of the undergraduate and graduate level, along with the U...
Eye health promotion is vital for supporting the health and wellbeing of eye patients and the commun...
Given the current health care climate, it is critical for nurse educators to provide learning opport...
In many developing countries, access to medical care and screenings are difficult, and this is espec...
Avoidable blindness is an important global public health concern. This study aimed to assess Trinida...
According to the WHO about 831 million people are visually impaired worldwide, 45 million of them ar...
Over 25 million people in sub-Saharan Africa are blind or visually impaired, the majority from avoid...
Globally, the environmental health discipline is rapidly being recognized as a critical science-base...
The Mozambique Eyecare Project was an international partnership to implement and research eye health...
Flying Eye Hospital As a teacher... It provides a space to train doctors, nurses and biomedical te...
Education has the potential to change individuals’ lives and fuel social transformation. There is a ...
To examine child eye health, in particular, visual impairment (VI), uncorrected refractive error (UR...
Exciting solutions are being developed to combat the huge increase in childhood myopia that had beco...
Volunteer eye/vision care projects to Third World\u27\u27 countries have become more common in rece...
Eye health and vision have widespread and profound implications for many aspects of life, health, su...
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