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Strategies for the prevention of blindness in national programmes
— a primary health care approach | | Corporate Author | World Health Organization - WHO |
| Publisher | WHO, Geneva, 1997 |
| Pages | 104 pp |
| Source | The Publications Centre, PO Box 276, London SW8 0DT. |
| Keywords | Blindness ; Visual impairment ; Preventative medicine ; General practice ; Planning [admin] ; Coordination. |
| Annotation | This book, presented in four parts, explains how well-planned national programmes help to ensure widespread blindness prevention and the co-ordination and efficient utilisation of resources available for health care. The first part presents the concept of avoidable blindness, and how activities organised nationally can be implemented at a local level, even with limited staff and resources. The essential components of national programmes are discussed in the second part, including strategies for mobilisation of national and international resources. Part three, on primary eye care, helps planners understand what a national programme entails in terms of essential clinical activities, personnel and training, supplies and equipment, and training material. The final part provides detailed advice on ways to combat each of the major blinding conditions: trachoma, blinding malnutrition, onchocerciasis, cataract, ocular trauma, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, and childhood blindness. Though recommended measures draw on state-of-the-art technical knowledge, emphasis is on simple activities easily carried out at the primary health care level. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980520213 B |
| Classmark | BS: BR: LK2: L5: QA6: QAJ |
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