Securing support for eye health policy in low- and middle-income countries: identifying stakeholders through a multi-level analysis.

This article empirically evaluates advocacy in low- and middle-income countries as a key tool for raising policy priority and securing high-level decision maker support in eye health. We used a unique data set based on a survey conducted by World Health Organization in 2011 on eye care and prevention of blindness in 82 low- and middle-income countries. The theoretical framework derives from the idea that a plethora of stakeholders at local and global level pressure national governments, acting in economic and the political spheres.

Age-related prevalence and met need for correctable and uncorrectable near vision impairment in a multi-country study.

Purpose: To estimate the prevalence, potential determinants, and proportion of met need for near vision impairment (NVI) correctable with refraction approximately 2 years after initial examination of a multi-country cohort.

Design: Population-based, prospective cohort study.

Participants: People aged ≥35 years examined at baseline in semi-rural (Shunyi) and urban (Guangzhou) sites in China; rural sites in Nepal (Kaski), India (Madurai), and Niger (Dosso); a semi-urban site (Durban) in South Africa; and an urban site (Los Angeles) in the United States.

Global data on visual impairment in the year 2002.

This paper presents estimates of the prevalence of visual impairment and its causes in 2002, based on the best available evidence derived from recent studies. Estimates were determined from data on low vision and blindness as defined in the International statistical classification of diseases, injuries and causes of death, 10th revision. The number of people with visual impairment worldwide in 2002 was in excess of 161 million, of whom about 37 million were blind.

[Angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia with bilateral involvement of the lacrimal glands].

Background: Angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia (ALHE) and Kimura's disease are two rarely occurring disorders very similar to each other; however, they are individual nosological entities. For a long time they were considered as a single disease due to the frequency of similar characteristics. The majority of authors have recently considered these diseases as two individual entities with some reciprocal specifications, both clinical as well as morphological.

Eye health care in the Czech Republic.

Objective: An analysis of eye health care in the Czech Republic as of 1998 was performed.

Methods: A questionnaire was used to obtain information from all 59 in-patient eye departments.

Results: The number of ophthalmologists per 1 million inhabitants was 95.