An approach to reduce the blindness burden in sub-Saharan Africa : special focus on childhood blindness
| dc.contributor.author | Marmamula, Srinivas | en_ZA |
| dc.contributor.author | Bharadwaj, Shrikant R. | en_ZA |
| dc.contributor.author | Keeffe, Jill | en_ZA |
| dc.contributor.author | Balasubramanian, Dorairajan | en_ZA |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-03-15T06:37:07Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-03-15T06:37:07Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
| dc.description | CITATION: Marmamula, S. et al. 2020. An approach to reduce the blindness burden in sub-Saharan Africa : special focus on childhood blindness, in Macnab, A., Daar, A. & Pauw, C. 2020. Health in transition : translating developmental origins of health and disease science to improve future health in Africa. Stellenbosch: SUN PReSS, doi:10.18820/9781928357759/13. | |
| dc.description | The original publication is available at https://africansunmedia.store.it.si/za | |
| dc.description.abstract | Sub-Saharan Africa is afflicted with high levels of blindness burden, affecting the quality of life and productivity of its people. While cataracts account for over 40 per cent of blindness, uncorrected refractive error leading to vision loss is over 50 per cent. The number of ophthalmologists and optometrists in the region, who can restore vision by surgery, and provide corrective eyeglasses for uncorrected refractive error, respectively, is woefully inadequate. However, most of these countries have primary health care centres. Workers in these centres have played remarkably successful roles in working with professionals in helping to reduce the burden of blindness due to onchocerciasis and trachoma. | en_ZA |
| dc.description.version | Publisher's version | |
| dc.format.extent | 15 pages | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Marmamula, S. et al. 2020. An approach to reduce the blindness burden in sub-Saharan Africa : special focus on childhood blindness, in Macnab, A., Daar, A. & Pauw, C. 2020. Health in transition : translating developmental origins of health and disease science to improve future health in Africa. Stellenbosch: SUN PReSS, doi:10.18820/9781928357759/13. | |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-1-928357-74-2 (print) | |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-1-928357-75-9 (online) | |
| dc.identifier.other | doi:10.18820/9781928357759/13 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/109645 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_ZA | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher | African Sun Media | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | The STIAS Series | |
| dc.rights.holder | African Sun Media | |
| dc.rights.holder | STIAS | |
| dc.subject | Public health -- Africa | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Blind children | en_ZA |
| dc.title | An approach to reduce the blindness burden in sub-Saharan Africa : special focus on childhood blindness | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Chapters in Books | en_ZA |