Millennium development goals and eye health

Millennium development goals and eye health

In September 2000, world leaders made a commitment to build a more equitable, prosperous and safer world by 2015 and launched the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In the previous year, the World Health Organization and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness in partnership launc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hannah B Faal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2012-01-01
Series:Indian Journal of Ophthalmology
Subjects:
Diabetes-related blindness
diabetic retinopathy
key informant
rapid assessment of avoidable blindness
retinopathy of prematurity
tele-ophthalmology
Blindness
disability
equity
health economics
health policy
health and development
social exclusion
Community eye health
prevention of blindness
ophthalmogical residency
VISION 2020
Visual impairment
blindness
inequality
social class
income
educational status
gender and ethnic groups
Advocacy
effective service delivery
enabling environment
stakeholders
resources
Avoidable blindness and visual impairment
impact
scaling up
Global blindness
prevalence
visual impairment
visual acuity
Comprehensive eye care
eye care model
pyramidal model
optometrist
optometry regulation
eye health
India
Economics
market
government
cost
Millennium development goals
Vision 2020 the Right to Sight
Online Access:http://www.ijo.in/article.asp?issn=0301-4738;year=2012;volume=60;issue=5;spage=411;epage=415;aulast=Faal

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http://www.ijo.in/article.asp?issn=0301-4738;year=2012;volume=60;issue=5;spage=411;epage=415;aulast=Faal

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