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Two strategies for correcting refractive errors in school students in Tanzania: randomised …


S Wedner, H Masanja, R Bowman, J Todd, C … - British Journal of Ophthalmology, 2008 - bjo.bmj.com
Purpose: To compare whether free spectacles or only a prescription for
spectacles influences wearing rates among Tanzanian students with
un/undercorrected refractive error (RE). ... Setting: 37 secondary ...
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Twenty years of childhood blindness: what have we learnt?


C Gilbert, M Muhit - Community Eye Health, 2008 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov
Over the last 20 years, much has been achieved in controlling blindness in
children. Prior to the launch of VISION 2020, a number of international
initiatives and programmes had raised the profile and increased ...
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[CITATION] Compliance of Spectacle wear and its determinants among schoolchildren of Dhakhiliya …


R Khandekar, AJ Mohammed, A Al Raisi - SQU JOURNAL FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH: …, 2002
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Compliance with first time spectacle wear in children under eight years of age


AM Horwood - Eye, 1998 - 万方数据资源系统
An anonymous prospective survey was carried out of children under 8 years of age
prescribed a first pair of spectacles from the Royal Berkshire Hospital between
August 1995 and May 1996, focusing on compliance in relation to refractive ...
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Vision screening of adolescents and their use of glasses.

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CS Peckham, PA Gardiner, A Tibbenham - British Medical Journal, 1979 - bmj.com
Page 1. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.6171.1111 1979;1;1111-1113 Br Med J CS Peckham, PA Gardiner
and A Tibbenham of glasses. Vision screening of adolescents and their use ...
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Ethnic differences in refraction and ocular biometry in a population-based sample of 11–15- …


JM Ip, SC Huynh, D Robaei, A Kifley, KA Rose … - Eye, 2007 - nature.com
Participants mean age was 12.7 years (range 11.1–14.4); 49.4% were female.
Overall, 60.0% of children had European Caucasian ethnicity, 15.0% East Asian,
7.1% Middle Eastern, and 5.5% South Asian. The most frequent refractive ...
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Prevalence and Causes of Functional Low Vision in School-Age Children: Results from …

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CE Gilbert, LB Ellwein… - Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 2008 - ARVO
METHODS. Using the same protocol, 4082 to 6527 children aged 5 (or 7) to 15
years were examined at each site. Uncorrected and presenting visual acuities
were successfully measured with retroilluminated logMAR tumbling-E charts ...
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Blindness in children: a worldwide perspective


P Gogate, C Gilbert - Globe - cehjournal.org
Many of the causes of childhood blindness are avoidable, being either
preventable or treatable. 1 Only three per cent of the world's blind population
are children. However, because children have a lifetime of blindness ahead ...
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Finding children who are blind


M Muhit - Comm Eye Health J, 2007 - cehjournal.org
The method involves using volunteers who know their community well, whether
through their occupational or social roles, in order to identify children who
are blind. These volunteers, called key informants, can be health workers, ...
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Barriers to Spectacle Use in Tanzanian Secondary School Students


N Odedra, SH Wedner, ZS Shigongo, K Nyalali … - Ophthalmic Epidemiology, 2008 - informahealthcare.com
Purpose: Screening school students for refractive errors is a component of many
primary eye care programs. In 2004 a trial of two approaches of
spectacle-delivery to Tanzanian secondary school students found that only ...
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