World Blindness and Its Prevention
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-261755-2 (ISBN)
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This volume is based on the proceedings of the Third General Assembly of the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) held in New Delhi in 1987. It provides information on the four main causes of blindness - trachoma, xerophthalmia, onchocerciasis and cataract - and sets out strategies for dealing with them in different regions of the world. There are also reports and recommendations from major organizations devoted to the prevention of blindness. The work supports the view that at least half of all blindness in the world is preventable. The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness, with its national and international partners, seeks to reduce the global toll of 40 million blind people by increasing awareness of this problem among the people of the world and their governments, by encouraging financial and manpower support of blindness prevention programmes and by promoting the development of prevention programmes employing appropriate and economic technology.
Part 1: preventing blindness - a retrospective, Sir John Wilson (Honorary President, IAPB). Part 2: inaugural address, Third General Assembly, Prime Minister Shri Rajiv Gandhi. Part 3: a decade of progress in the prevention of blindness, Carl Kupfer. Part 4 Four main causes of blindness: trachoma, Bjorn Thylefors (Programme Manager, Prevention of Blindness, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland), Chandler R. Dawson (Director, Francis I, Proctor Foundation for Research in Ophthalmology, University of California, San Francisco, USA); xerophthalmia, Barbara A. Underwood; onchocerciasis, Hugh R. Taylor; cataract, Carl Kupfer. Part 5 Regional action: Africa; Eastern Europe; Latin America; Middle East; North America; South Asia; South-East Asia; Western Pacific. Part 6: operations research in cataract blindness prevention, Leon B. Ellwein (Professor and Associate Dean, University of Nebraska Medical Centre, Nebraska, USA), Carl Kupfer. Part 7: mobilizing resources and political will - convincing governments that prevention of blindness is cost-effective, Michael F. Drummond (Director, Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham). Part 8 IAPB-sponsored workshops at the Third General Assembly: guidelines for the training of paramedical cataract surgeons, Randolph Whitfield, Jr (Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind and Operation Eyesight Universal, Mt Kenya Estates, Nyeri, Kenya); strategies to reduce the backlog of cataract blind in Africa, Randolph Whitfield, Jr; multi-disciplinary approaches to children and corneal diseases, Barbara A. Underwood; prevention and rehabilitation - their complementary relationship in national programmes, Sally Deitz, Eva Friedlander. Part 9 Recommendations of the executive board accepted by the General Assembly: regions, regional chairmen, budgets and membership; cataract backlog. Part 10 International non-governmental organizations: communications between non-governmental organizations and the World Health Organization, Bjorn Thylefors; reports of the non-governmental organizations - Christoffel Blindenmission, Foresight, Helen Keller International, International Eye Foundation, Operation Eyesight Universal, Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind, Seva Foundation, World Blind Union. Appendices: 1 - WHO regional offices, collaborating centres for the prevention of blindness and member nations by region; 2 - IAPB officers, regional co-chairmen and executive board members, 1986-90; 3 - constitution of the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness; 4 - proposal for cataract-free zones in Latin America, 8 May 1986; 5 - report of the WHO interregional meeting on the management of cataract within primary health care systems, Denpasar, Indonesia 15-19 December 1986. Index.
| Zusatzinfo | 7 line drawings, bibliography, index |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 150 x 230 mm |
| Gewicht | 545 g |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Augenheilkunde |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-261755-9 / 0192617559 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-261755-2 / 9780192617552 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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