دورية أكاديمية
Childhood Blindness: Causes & Prevention
| العنوان: | Childhood Blindness: Causes & Prevention |
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| المؤلفون: | Rabindran, Gedam, D Sharad |
| المصدر: | Tropical Journal of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology; Vol 1 No 1 (2016): Jul-Dec; 1-2 ; 2456-6454 ; 2581-4907 |
| بيانات النشر: | Siddharth Health Research and Social Welfare Society |
| سنة النشر: | 2016 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Childhood blindness, Vitamin A deficiency, Prevention of blindness |
| الوصف: | The global prevalence of childhood blindness is approximately 1.4 million. Nearly 500,000 children become blind every year - nearly one per minute.Worldwide, vitamin A deficiency is the commonest single cause of childhood blindness. Childhood blindness can be categorized as preventable & curable. Preventable causes include corneal scars due to vitamin A deficiency, infections & injuries; whereas curable cause includepediatric cataract, glaucoma, retinopathy of prematurity & refractive errors. Of late childhood blindness has been identified as a priority in WHO’s global initiative to eliminate avoidable blindness by the year 2020.Immunization, maternal & child health care, health education, good nutrition, provision of essential drugs, clean water supply & good sanitation, control of endemic diseases & treatment of common ailments, sufficient personnel trained in primary eye care are essential for control of childhood blindness. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf; text/html |
| اللغة: | English |
| العلاقة: | https://opthalmology.medresearch.in/index.php/jooo/article/view/1/1Test; https://opthalmology.medresearch.in/index.php/jooo/article/view/1/2Test; https://opthalmology.medresearch.in/index.php/jooo/article/view/1Test |
| DOI: | 10.17511/jooo.2016.i01.01 |
| الإتاحة: | https://doi.org/10.17511/jooo.2016.i01.01Test https://opthalmology.medresearch.in/index.php/jooo/article/view/1Test |
| حقوق: | Copyright (c) 2016 Author (s). Published by Siddharth Health Research and Social Welfare Society ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0Test |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.45F4E91B |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| DOI: | 10.17511/jooo.2016.i01.01 |
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