Comm Eye Health Vol. 12 No. 29 1999. Published online 01 March, 1999
Ageing: a global perspective
Rapid population ageing poses immense challenges to health and social services. Such challenges will be daunting to developing countries, which are still faced with infrastructural development problems and scarce resources. Radical answers urgently need to be worked out.
Articles in this issue –
- Ageing: a global perspective
- The epidemiology of ageing and the eye
- Delivery of eye care to the elderly: practical considerations
- Age-related macular disease: aetiology and clinical management
- Age-related macular disease: intervention possibilities
- Road traffic accidents and ocular trauma: experience at Tripoli Eye Hospital, Libya
- Setting up an eye service in the Republic of Benin
- Endorsement of the global initiative VISION 2020: The Right to Sight