Open Access<p>Does Performing the Chinese Eye Exercises Help Protect Children’s Vision? – New Evidence from Primary Schools in Rural Northwestern China</p>
Author(s) -
Juerong Huang,
Qihui Chen,
Kang Du,
Hongyu Guan
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
risk management and healthcare policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.828
H-Index - 22
ISSN - 1179-1594
DOI - 10.2147/rmhp.s277917
Subject(s) - china , multivariate probit model , estimation , psychology , medicine , visual acuity , probit model , instrumental variable , optometry , demography , geography , statistics , mathematics , ophthalmology , engineering , systems engineering , sociology , archaeology
The high prevalence of myopia among school-age children in China has raised serious concerns about protecting Chinese students' vision. While the regular performance of the Chinese eye exercises has been adopted as a preventive approach in China since the mid-1960s, these exercises' effectiveness at protecting students' vision has remained largely unknown. This study attempts to provide new evidence of the impact of regularly performing the exercises on Chinese students' visual outcomes, based on a large-scale dataset.