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Why South Africa needs to prioritise scaling up refractive services


An evaluation of the public sector optometric service provided within ...

Integrated, people-centred eye care: Why South Africa needs to prioritise scaling up refractive services. D. V. van StadenA. Munsamy.

Grand Challenges in global eye health: a global prioritisation ...

With the ageing global population, the need for eye health services will continue to increase, particularly in the context of pervasive inequity in access and ...

Can we scale up a comprehensive school-based eye health ...

Globally, 19 million children have preventable vision impairment simply because refractive and eye health services are inaccessible to most of ...

Evidence for integrating eye health into primary health care in Africa

The impact of unmet eye care needs in sub-Saharan Africa is compounded by barriers to accessing eye care, limited engagement with ...

Posi Stre Heal ition ngthe lth in S Paper ning H SADC r Human ...

... Southern and East Africa respectively are uncorrected refractive error ... Primary Eye Care in Sub-Saharan Africa: Do We Have the Evidence We Need to Scale up ...

Telemedicine integration into the eye health ecosystem in scaling of ...

The limited human resources in the eye health ecosystem in developing countries cannot effectively deliver refractive error services to the ...

2030 in Sight: Ending Avoidable Sight Loss

It has demonstrated that integration of refractive services and school eye health ... together to scale up the delivery of refractive error services globally.

Global Public Goods - ATscale

... scaling up handheld autorefractors in public health settings within LMICs. ... The tool has been used in South Africa to cost comprehensive hearing services ...

Scaling up Human Resources for Eye Health - Sightsavers

investments that Sightsavers has made through consortiums in Africa and South Asia is in ... Guyana has approved a 3 level training programme in refraction ...

The Lancet Global Health Commission on Global Eye Health: vision ...

Action to prioritise eye health is needed now. This Commission defines eye health as maximised vision, ocular health, and functional ability, thereby ...

How scaling up clinical research in Africa can benefit society and the ...

Scaling up trials in Africa is a public health priority that will strengthen healthcare interventions, improve access to lifesaving medicines ...

Setting targets for human resources for eye health in sub-Saharan ...

Refractive error and visual impairment in African children in South. Africa. ... Primary eye care in sub-Saharan Africa: do we have the evidence needed to scale ...

Global uncorrected refractive error and presbyopia: the size of the ...

Refractive services therefore have the potential to not only improve vision and quality of life, but also to save lives. Eye health equity.

The Power of Advocacy: Advancing Vision for Everyone to ... - Journals

... South Africa, 3Vision Impact Institute,. Dallas, TX ... define the framework and key pillars of advocacy to scaling-up success by 2030.

Scaling up paediatric HIV care with an integrated, family-centred ...

2021: Integrated, people-centred eye care: Why South Africa needs to prioritise scaling up refractive services South African Medical Journal 111(10): 924-925 ...

ATscale, the Global Partnership for Assistive Technology on LinkedIn

Scaling up Refractive Error Services project in Cambodia. https://www ... Africa, and South Asia to identify those with unaddressed vision and ...

Refractive error strategy | Sightsavers

coming decades, urgent action is needed to develop ... and projected burden of refractive error and constraints to scaling up refractive services.

Can we scale up a comprehensive school-based eye health ...

Abstract. Background: Globally, 19 million children have preventable vision impairment simply because refractive and eye health services are inaccessible to ...

Research Archives | Value Your Eyes

Scaling up the delivery of refractive error services within a district health system: the KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa experience ... In South Africa, the health ...

‪Prof Alvin J Munsamy‬ - ‪Google Scholar‬

Integrated, people-centred eye care: Why South Africa needs to prioritise scaling up refractive services. D van Staden, A Munsamy. South African Medical Journal ...