Comm Eye Health Vol. 17 No. 49 2004. Published online 01 March, 2004
Low vision care
People with low vision have residual vision with some light perception, but their vision loss does not lend itself to improvement by standard spectacles or medical or surgical treatment. Such persons have the potential for enhanced functional vision if they receive appropriate low vision care services.
Articles in this issue –
- Low vision care: the need to maximise visual potential
- Vision assessment and prescription of low vision devices
- Establishing low vision services at secondary level
- Low vision devices and training
- Standard list for low vision services
- Evidence-base for low vision rehabilitation
- Sight restored at 101: a story from China
- Cuba is advancing positively towards the goals of VISION 2020
- The value of volunteers
- Letter to the Editor. Sterilising instruments
- Gender and use of cataract surgical services: experiences from Munawwar Memorial Hospital in District Chakwal, Pakistan
- Letter to the Editor. Astigmatism after sutureless cataract surgery
News and notices –
- Abstracts
- Exchange
- The community is my university – a voice from the grass roots on rural health and development
- Royal College of Ophthalmologists: Examination Calendar 2004 (UK & Overseas)
- News from VISION 2020: The Right to Sight
- Indian edition relaunched
- SICS correspondence
- News for ophthalmic nurse readers
- International Society for Geographical & Epidemiological Ophthalmology (ISGEO) Congress, Dubai, September 25-26, 2004
- Tanzanian distribution of the Journal
- French edition: A l’attention des lecteurs de langue française
- Attention all past ICEH students
- Eye diseases in hot climates: new fourth edition
- Tropical Doctor
- Portuguese-language educational resources