Public Health
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145How Has COVID-19 Changed the Epidemiology of Myopia?
October 15, 2021 By Joshua Foreman, PhD; Mohamed Dirani, PhD, MBA, GAICD; and Arief Tjitra Salim, BEng Almost two years since the pandemic...
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692The Myopia App Study
September 1, 2021 By Dwight Akerman, OD, MBA, FAAO, FBCLA Smartphone use is a relatively new behavior among youth. It became increasingly...
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1.9KEverything ECPs Need to Know About Myopia Management and Where to Get It
sponsored content August 16, 2021 By Carla Mack, OD, MBA, FAAO, FBCLA; Kelly Vaupel, MS; R. Alan Landers, OD, MS, FAAO The...
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1.4KWhat a Parental Control App is Teaching Us About Eye Health Care Service Utilization
July 15, 2021 By Joshua Foreman, PhD; Arief Tjitra Salim, BEng; Dilara Koca, MPH; and Mohamed Dirani, PhD, MBA, GAICD The planoApp...
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1.4KA Not-So-Distant Mirror: Myopia in China
sponsored content December 15, 2020 By Maria Liu, OD, PhD, FAAO, Associate Professor of Clinical Optometry UC Berkeley, School of Optometry With...
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1.4KA ‘Prevention and Control’ Implementation Plan for Myopia Management in China
Due to the drastic increase in both the prevalence and severity of myopia in China, on August 30, 2018, eight national departments...
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2.7KCOVIDOPIA or COVIDNOPIA: Myopia Progression During COVID-19
October 15, 2020 By Thomas Aller, OD, FBCLA Collaborator, BHVI This was supposed to be the year of vision or optometry’s year,...
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4.1KWhy Do So Few People Know about the Potential Pathology Related to Myopia?
Sponsored Content August 17, 2020 By Daniel Press, OD, FCOVD As eye care professionals, when you see one patient with complications that...
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4.7KA Wake-up Call to the Long-term Threat of Myopia
Myopia progression is irreversible, so when this treatment window closes, the higher risk of vision loss remains for life.
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5.9KThe Vision Care Sector’s Call to Action
Myopia is not just a ‘vision anomaly’ that is simply treated with glasses.
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Millicent Knight, OD, FAAO, FAARM, FNAP
Millicent Knight, OD, FAAO, FAARM, FNAP3.7KGiving Myopia A Louder Voice
This is an exciting time for myopia management.
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6.7KThe Global Myopia Awareness Coalition: What It Is and Why It Matters
Tens of millions of myopic children around the world need our help.
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2.4KMyopia: The Time to Act is Now
Many do not understand the significance of myopia to potential ocular health issues.
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2.2KUnderstanding the Characteristics of People at Greater Risk
Research has uncovered some characteristics of people at greater risk.
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2.7KLost Productivity Due To Myopia
Uncorrected myopia as well as high myopia resulting in complications such as myopic macular degeneration (MMD) can potentially result in lost productivity....
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2.4KThe Public Health Burden of Myopia and High Myopia
There is an urgent and massive need to improve access to refractive care, particularly in low resource communities.
