Whovisualimpairment

2023年8月10日 — WHO fact sheet on blindness and visual impairment providing key facts, definitions, causes, who is at risk, global and WHO response.

Although effective interventions exist to address the two leading causes of vision impairment, namely optical correction for refractive errors and surgery for ...

The work of WHO's Eye care, vision impairment and blindness programme is guided by World Health Assembly resolution WHA73.4 Integrated, people-centred eye care ...

2023年3月8日 — And of those with unaddressed vision impairment or blindness, 90% live in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). There is a strong economic, ...

Globally, at least 2.2 billion people have a vision impairment or blindness, of whom at least 1 billion have a vision impairment that could have been prevented ...

The most common causes of visual impairment globally are uncorrected refractive errors (43%), cataracts (33%), and glaucoma (2%). ... Refractive errors include ...

Vision impairment means that a person's eyesight cannot be corrected to a “normal” level. Vision impairment may be caused by a loss of visual acuity, ...

18 April 2012 – Using the most up-to-date studies, WHO estimates that the number of people with visual impairment (presenting vision) is 285 million (65% of ...

2019年10月8日 — At present at least 2.2 billion people around the world have a vision impairment, of whom at least 1 billion have a vision impairment that ...