Comm Eye Health Vol. 12 No. 31 1999. Published online 01 September, 1999
Community participation
There is an overwhelming need for a community-based approach to eye health promotion. Most of the methods needed have already been developed for other health topics. The challenge is to apply them to the most important goal of all – the prevention of blindness.
Articles in this issue –
- Community participation: ‘Putting the community into community eye health’
- Health promotion and community participation in eye care services
- People who don’t use eye services: ‘making the invisible visible’
- Mobilising resources within the community: ‘mobilising the unmobilised’
- Community selection of ivermectin distributors
- Self-sustaining community-based primary eye care
- The focometer: use in aphakic correction
- The global initiative – VISION 2020: The Right to Sight. Childhood blindness
- Qualitative methods
- Letter. How can we help blind children?
- Letter. Blindness provoked by locally-produced antibiotic eyewash
News and notices –
- Sixteenth congress of the International Society for Geographical & Epidemiological Ophthalmology (ISGEO)
- The International Council of Ophthalmology assessments for ophthalmologists
- Community ophthalmology practice at primary care level
- The Royal College of Ophthalmologists
- Community eye health courses 2000/2001
- Abstracts