Tag: visual impairment

Rajiv Khandekar, MS (Ophth), PG Dip (Epi) “The prevalence of childhood blindness was 0.3 per 1,000 children in industrialised countries and 1.2 per 1,000 children in the developing countries in the year 2000. Accordingly, it was estimated that there were nearly 1.4 million blind children in the world. Each...

Authors: Olalekan A. Oduntan,  Khathutshelo P. Mashige, Rekha Hansraj, Godwin Ovenseri-Ogbomo  “Globally, many people live in rural areas where they experience poor health as a result, in part, of limited access to health services. In many countries, this limited access to health services in rural areas is the result of...

Prevalence of macular complications related to myopia – Results of a multicenter evaluation of myopic patients in eye clinics in France Nicolas Leveziel,1,2,3,4,5 Simon Marillet,2,6 Quentin Dufour,1,2 Olivier Lichtwitz,1,2 Yacine Bentaleb,7 Fran”cois Pelen,7 Pierre Ingrand4,6 and Rupert Bourne5 1University of Poitiers, Poitiers, France 2CHU Poitiers, Poitiers, France 3INSERM 1084, Poitiers, France 4CIC 1402, Poitiers, France 5Vision & Eye...