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Prevent Blindness to Host 13th Annual Focus on Eye Health …

WEBPrevent Blindness, the leading eye health and safety nonprofit organization in the United States, will host the 13th annual Prevent Blindness Focus on Eye Health Summit on July 10-11, 2024, as a virtual interactive event.

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Prevent Blindness Announces Recipients of the 2024 Jenny …

WEBPrevent Blindness, the nation’s leading eye health and safety organization in the United States, has announced the recipient of the 2024 Jenny Pomeroy Award for Excellence in Vision and Public Health as Mission for Vision (MFV).

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World health leaders adopt two new ambitious global eye health …

WEBThe targets cement the WHO global strategy to address the huge unmet need in eye care

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United Nations General Assembly Resolution on Vision

WEBThe resolution was unanimously adopted by all 193 countries of the United Nations on 23 July 2021.. It is the first agreement designed to tackle preventable sight loss to be adopted at the United Nations and enshrines eye health as part of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.

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Prevent Blindness Declares March as Workplace Eye Wellness …

WEBPrevent Blindness, the nation’s leading eye health and safety nonprofit organization, has once again declared March as Workplace Eye Wellness Month to encourage employers and employees to make eye safety and eye protection a …

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Transforming Eye Health with Technology: A Guide for Success

WEBSince the launch we have received an overwhelming response with over 390 views of the Guide from more than 50 countries. Amanda Davis, one of the experts involved in the development of this guide said “Rapidly changing technology has created a new set of challenges in the eye care sector, but it also has unlocked solutions.

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World Health Day 2018: Health for All

WEBA call for the eye health sector and civil society engagement. For this year’s World Health Day the WHO has chosen the theme ‘Universal Health coverage: everyone, everywhere’. With that theme the WHO in its 70 th anniversary year is calling on world leaders to live up to the pledges they made when they agreed the Sustainable …

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Inequality in Vision Loss

WEB73% of people with vision loss are aged 50 years and older. Rates of vision loss increase quickly every decade above 50 years. Most of the world’s population with vision loss are aged 50 years and older. Health promotion and early detection can delay or prevent many causes of vision loss.

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Improving Access to Glaucoma Care: A Population Health Priority

WEBThe COVID-19 pandemic has not affected everyone equally. The headlines have been broadcasting that there are serious disparities in how the pandemic is affecting people of color.

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WHO reports continued progress towards trachoma elimination

WEBThe number of people at risk from trachoma, the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness, fell from 125 million in 2022 to 115.7 in 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported in its Weekly Epidemiological Record. The progress update presents data on the implementation of the WHO-endorsed SAFE strategy (surgery, …

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Scholarships now open for Master’s in Public Health for Eye Care

WEBThe International Centre for Eye Health’s Master’s in Public Health for Eye Care is an internationally renowned course for eye care professionals. Students learn how to develop and manage eye health programmes, undertake research, and become advocates to influence policy.

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GBD regions and super regions

WEBSuper regions. The regions used in the Vision Atlas are based on the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) regional classification system. GBD created super regions based on two criteria: epidemiological similarity and geographic closeness. For example, the High Income region covers a group of 34 countries in different parts of the world.

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Unleashing the power of gender equity in eye health

WEBOur survey found that a little under 30% of CEOs in the eye health sector were female. Perhaps not surprisingly, further research shows that women make up only 17.8% of Chairs and 28.3% of Board positions across the sector. Clearly, we have a long way to go before we achieve gender equity in leadership.

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Challenges and opportunities with HMIS in Zambia

WEBSightsavers works closely with the ophthalmic staff in the SiB implementing districts to ensure that all information collected through community field visits and during clinical visit to the eye clinics by the beneficiaries is entered in the district HMIS system.

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Launch of the China White Paper, English Version

WEBEvery five years the National Committee for the Prevention of Blindness in China publishes a white paper to review the successes of the past period and establish the foundation for the next five year term.

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World Sight Day 2022 Report

WEBThursday 13th October 2022 saw us celebrate our biggest World Sight Day ever, with stunts, screenings and social media activity happening from New Zealand to New York, Nepal to Uganda. We saw an incredible amount of support in the media and a huge increase in engagement from the sector and beyond from World Sight Day 2021.

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National School Health and Nutrition Strategy

WEBAny person between 10 to 24 years of age. Any person less than 18 years of age. A framework that enables to respond to the different health and nutrition conditions of school-age children through the integrated application of different components. Children attending schools at all levels in the country.

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Global Guideline For Type 2 Diabetes

WEBSUMMARY OF THE LEVELS 3 SUMMARY OF THE LEVELS OF CARE STRUCTURE Recommended care: Evidence-based care, cost-effective in most nations with a well developed service base and with health-care funding systems consuming a significant part

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儿童眼健康和教育

WEB概述. 规模和影响. 儿童眼睛健康. 学校眼健康. 超过9000万年轻人生活在视力下降的环境中,而其中大部分是可以预防的。. 视力不佳的儿童和青少年的教育成果更差,更有可能被学校拒之门外。. 这反过来又影响了成就和以后的工作机会,导致丧失潜力和生产力。.

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