Open AccessVision Screening of School Children by Teachers as a Community Based Strategy to Address the Challenges of Childhood Blindness
Author(s) -
Gurvinder Kaur,
Jency Maria Koshy,
Simmy Thomas,
Harpreet Kapoor,
Jiju George Zachariah,
Sahiba Bedi
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of clinical and diagnostic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-782X
pISSN - 0973-709X
DOI - 10.7860/jcdr/2016/18939.7628
Subject(s) - childhood blindness , false positive paradox , optometry , government (linguistics) , medicine , low vision , population , blindness , eye examination , referral , medical education , psychology , family medicine , ophthalmology , visual acuity , retinopathy of prematurity , environmental health , computer science , artificial intelligence , pregnancy , linguistics , philosophy , genetics , biology , gestational age
Early detection and treatment of vision problems in children is imperative to meet the challenges of childhood blindness. Considering the problems of inequitable distribution of trained manpower and limited access of quality eye care services to majority of our population, innovative community based strategies like 'Teachers training in vision screening' need to be developed for effective utilization of the available human resources.