Course: Glaucoma: A Public Health Approach to Preventing Blindness

Eye health providers need to build long-term relationships with glaucoma patients. In this video, Abdull shares his experiences and recommendations. Fatima Kyari shares her approach to building lasting relationships with …

Dr Fatima Kyari undertook an extensive study to understand the challenges faced in glaucoma care. Below is an adapted overview of the study. Dr Kyari’s study found that the majority …

Glaucoma is a leading cause of irreversible blindness. Glaucoma is chronic and lifelong! The risk of glaucoma increases with age. It occurs globally but the risk of blindness is greater …

The patient journey may start with a referral because of increased intraocular pressure detected in a routine eye examination in an otherwise asymptomatic patient, or a sudden awareness of changes …

Management of glaucoma has seen many advances in diagnostic technology together with therapeutic options. All these need to be considered at a local level, in line with context-specific requirements relating …

Central to the inequities faced across glaucoma programmes (especially across low- and middle-income country settings) is the rural–urban challenge for glaucoma care due to a lack of glaucoma specialists, lack …

This checklist provides the essential and optional diagnostic tests that would be required to: Establish a diagnosis of glaucoma (open-angle glaucoma, ocular hypertension, angle-closure disease) undertaken as part of a …

The visual field is the entire area (field of vision) that a person can see when both eyes are focused on a single point, straight ahead and includes what can …

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