Course: Global Blindness: Planning and Managing Eye Care Services

The cataract surgical rate has remained low across the world, but most notably in low and middle-income countries. In this step we look at the reasons why and how we …

The aim of public health is to deliver interventions to avert human suffering. These interventions are also referred to as prevention strategies. The need for cataract prevention strategies is huge, …

In the mid 1990s it was projected that the magnitude of global blindness would double, from 38 million in 1990 to 76 million by 2020. This projection was based on …

In this step we introduce the Zrenya hypothetical case study, focusing on a fictional location that shares many of the common challenges faced by low and middle income countries. Using …

What’s next for eye care? It is important to build upon the achievements and lessons learnt in the first decade of VISION 2020: The Right to Sight, and increase momentum …

The first 10 years of the Gambia eye care programme saw blindness in the country reduced by 40%. More than 2,000 people were saved from blindness and the cost of …

World Health Organization data from 2010 estimated that approximately 285 million people across the world had some form of visual impairment (Pascolini & Mariotti, 2011). In 2017, a new review …

In order to understand the epidemiology of visual impairment we need to use an agreed definition of visual acuity. This will allow us to compare studies from different locations and …

The word ‘epidemiology’ is of Greek origin: ‘Epi’, meaning ‘upon’, ‘Demos’, meaning ‘population’, and ‘Logos’, meaning ‘study’. This translates to ‘a study of that which is visited upon a population’. …