Public Health
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757What 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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1.1KA 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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1.1KA ‘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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2.5KCOVIDOPIA 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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3.9KWhy 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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4.5KA 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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5.8KThe 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, FNAP3.6KGiving Myopia A Louder Voice
This is an exciting time for myopia management.
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6.5KThe 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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2.3KMyopia: The Time to Act is Now
Many do not understand the significance of myopia to potential ocular health issues.
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2.0KUnderstanding the Characteristics of People at Greater Risk
Research has uncovered some characteristics of people at greater risk.
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2.5KLost 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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2.2KThe 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.
