Comm Eye Health Vol. 11 No. 26 1998. Published online 01 June, 1998
The importance of primary eye care
Primary eye care (PEC) is a broad concept, encompassing the prevention of potentially blinding eye diseases through primary health care (PHC). PEC includes the identification, with treatment or referral, of individuals with treatable causes of blindness; and the diagnosis and treatment of common eye diseases, particularly those causing an acute red eye.
Articles in this issue –
- The importance of primary eye care
- Essential components of primary eye care
- Who can carry out primary eye care?
- Development of primary eye care as an integrated part of comprehensive health care
- Randomised controlled trials
- Mansonella streptocerca: another filarial worm in the skin in western Uganda
- The global initiative for the elimination of avoidable blindness
- Keratomalacia in northern Afghanistan
News and notices –
- High quality low cost intraocular lenses (IOLs)
- Vision 99 International Conference on Low Vision
- International Agency for Prevention of Blindness African Region Congress
- Teaching slide/text sets relevant to primary eye care
- Poem: Hazy Sight
- International Council of Ophthalmology International Basic Science Assessment for Ophthalmologists
- Other teaching resources for primary eye care and related topics
- Aging changes of the optic nerve head in relation to open angle glaucoma