Advancing low vision services: A plan for Australian optometry

Advancing Education in Optometry

Advancing a Global Vision

3 Editorial aDVaNcINg a gLOBaL VISION S ince the journal's inception , Global Advances in Health and Medicine has sought to highlight global health issues and perspectives through a lens that includes a focus on integrative health and medicine. In an article published in Lancet, Koplan et al call for a common definition of global health. 1 Distinguishing the differences between international he...

Low vision services for children in Tanzania

The Kilimanjaro Centre for Community Ophthalmology (KCCO) has been involved in a five-year pilot project to improve low vision services for children in Tanzania.Low vision services were limited to a few tertiary hospitals and were accessible to only a few children. Children with low vision were usually enrolled in schools for the blind, most of them without having received an eye examination or...

Low vision services for vision rehabilitation in the United Kingdom.

AIM Little is known about the distribution and methods of delivery of low vision services across the United Kingdom. The purpose of this study was to determine the type and location of low vision services within the UK. METHODS Survey by means of a 29 point postal questionnaire, followed when necessary by a five point telephone questionnaire. All known potential providers of low vision servic...

Advancing a Vision for Regulatory Science Training.

Regulatory science, a complex field which draws on science, law, and policy, is a growing discipline in medical-related applications. Competencies help define both a discipline and the criteria to measure high-quality learning experiences. This paper identifies competencies for regulatory science, how they were developed, and broader recommendations to enhance education and training in this bur...