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Wearing glasses boosts income by a third in low-income communities, finds landmark new study
4 April 2024
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international, humanitarian, VisionSpring, BRAC, Queens University, Belfast, THRIVE, study, research
A pair of reading glasses increases the earnings of people in low-income communities by 33% according to new research.
VisionSpring’s screening methodology is adopted by the World Health Organisation to increase global access to reading glasses
9 January 2023
By endorsing the training of health workers and nurses to identify blurry near vision and dispense reading glasses, the WHO’s new training program is helping solve this billion person issue.
Children’s competition helping kids get the right glasses to combat preventable childhood blindness
11 September 2024
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competition, IAPB, World Sight Day 2024, WSD24, children, Love Your Eyes, charity, international
Ahead of World Sight Day 2024 on the 10th October, the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) is putting children’s eye health at the centre of their Love Your Eyes campaign, with the Glasses of the Future competition....
Refocus on children programme results
1 June 2015
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
The authors describe the logistics and results of the refocus on children programme for the 2012-13 school year. The aim of the programme was to help school nurses provide access to comprehensive vision care and reduce unnecessary visual loss or...
Effectiveness of Eagles Eye Mobile
1 December 2015
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
The EEM programme was created to target children failing school nurse screening and likely to not have access to eye care. The EEM visits schools in low income areas providing optometric examinations to detect correctable refractive error, prescribe and deliver...
Parental knowledge of digital eye strain
The authors undertook a prospective cross-sectional questionnaire-based observation study to evaluate digital eye strain prevalence, knowledge, attitude and practice pattern scores among parents of children attending online classes. For the questionnaires, a Google survey form was used consisting of 39...New vision programme will test the sight of 47,500 rural Zambians
12 July 2023
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VisionSpring, Live Well, CCZ, eyecare services, international, Zambia, rural areas, test
Last month, VisionSpring, Live Well (affiliated with CARE International) and the Council of Churches Zambia (CCZ) officially launched the Reading Glasses for Improved Livelihoods (RGIL) programme in Zambia.
Microtropia as an amblyopia indicator
1 August 2019
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
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Amblyopia, anisometropia, microtropia, occlusion
This study was undertaken to determine if microtropia with identity (straight eye anisometropia) is a reliable indicator of amblyopia following optical correction. This was a retrospective review of 532 children aged four to five years. After two months of glasses...
Self refracting – child’s play?
1 February 2018
| Eulee Seow
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EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive
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China, children, conventional refraction, conventional spectacles, myopia, eady-made spectacles, rural refractionist, self-refraction, visual function
Uncorrected refractive error was the leading cause of vision impairment in the world in 2010. Although refractive error may be safely and effectively corrected with spectacles, lack of well-trained refractionists in settings of limited resources may be a major barrier....
Changes in refractive error in patients with accommodative esotropia after being weaned from hyperopic correction
This is a retrospective review of medical records of 47 patients with refractive ocular accommodative esotropia who achieved emmetropisation and orthotropia without hyperopic glasses correction and were followed up for at least three years. The objective of the study is...
Clearly: How a 700 year old invention can change the world forever
“If you are reading this, there’s a one in two chance that you’re doing so with a pair of glasses or contact lenses. Just imagine what your life would be like without them.” Most of the people living in this...
Amblyopia treatment
1 August 2019
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
This study was conducted to assess practice preferences in the management of amblyopia among paediatric ophthalmologists. A close-ended multiple choice questionnaire consisting of 10 questions was circulated to 113 paediatric ophthalmologists and fellows of which 74 completed the questionnaire. Seventy-six...
