Creating demand for cataract services: a Cambodian case study
Following decades of civil disturbance in Cambodia, by the early 1990s there were few doctors remaining in the country, and little in the way of eye care services.With NGO support, training centres were established to train medical graduates and nurses as ‘basic eye doctors’ and ‘basic eye nurses’....
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International Centre for Eye Health (ICEH), London
2006-12-01
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| description | Following decades of civil disturbance in Cambodia, by the early 1990s there were few doctors remaining in the country, and little in the way of eye care services.With NGO support, training centres were established to train medical graduates and nurses as ‘basic eye doctors’ and ‘basic eye nurses’. These workers were then placed in provincial eye units to serve the eye care needs of those provinces. However, it soon became clear that, despite evidence that blindness, including cataract blindness, was prevalent, patients were not attending these provincial eye units. Attention was therefore given to finding out more about the barriers preventing patients benefiting from these services. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1100b2cf39434c789a59651fab9828d72022-12-21T20:25:55ZengInternational Centre for Eye Health (ICEH), LondonCommunity Eye Health Journal0953-68332006-12-0119606566Creating demand for cataract services: a Cambodian case studySeng SophalStephen CainsFollowing decades of civil disturbance in Cambodia, by the early 1990s there were few doctors remaining in the country, and little in the way of eye care services.With NGO support, training centres were established to train medical graduates and nurses as ‘basic eye doctors’ and ‘basic eye nurses’. These workers were then placed in provincial eye units to serve the eye care needs of those provinces. However, it soon became clear that, despite evidence that blindness, including cataract blindness, was prevalent, patients were not attending these provincial eye units. Attention was therefore given to finding out more about the barriers preventing patients benefiting from these services.http://www.cehjournal.org/0953-6833/19/jceh_19_60_065.htmlCambodiaHealth Services AccessibilityDelivery of Health CareCataract |
| spellingShingle | Seng Sophal Stephen Cains Creating demand for cataract services: a Cambodian case study Community Eye Health Journal Cambodia Health Services Accessibility Delivery of Health Care Cataract |
| title | Creating demand for cataract services: a Cambodian case study |
| title_full | Creating demand for cataract services: a Cambodian case study |
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| title_short | Creating demand for cataract services: a Cambodian case study |
| title_sort | creating demand for cataract services a cambodian case study |
| topic | Cambodia Health Services Accessibility Delivery of Health Care Cataract |
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