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  • Eye diseases in diverse populations :challenges and opportunities for preventing and treating blindness
    [Free to all]
    Drabkin Eye Disease Symposium

  • Improving the nation's vision health :a coordinated public health approach.
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    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.).
    Cover title."The importance of vision and eye health has been recognized with the introduction of vision objectives in Healthy People 2010, a national disease prevention initiative that identifies opportunities to improve the health of all Americans....The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), through its Vision Health Initiative (VHI) located within the Division of Diabetes Translation (DDT), has [involved] a wide range of stakeholders in the design of a coordinated public health framework to prevent blindness and vision impairment. It is intended that this report will assist CDC and other public health champions in developing and implementing more comprehensive and detailed strategies that will reduce the burden of vision impairment and eye diseases for all Americans during the next decade and beyond." - p. 3.
  • Prevent Blindness America


  • Tilganga Eye Centre.
    [Free to all]

    Tilganga Eye Centre is the implementing body of the Nepal Eye Program, a non-profit, community-based, non-government organization. The Nepal Eye Program was officially launched in July 1992 to support the prevention & control of blindness in Nepal and the region.
  • Vision 2020: The Right to Sight.
    World Health Organization (WHO)/International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAHB).
    The "global initiative for the elimination of avoidable blindness."

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