Saxena Rohit, Vashist Praveen, Menon Vimla
Dr. RP Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Indian J Community Med. 2013 Apr;38(2):83-5. doi: 10.4103/0970-0218.112436.
Myopia, a form of refractive error is a leading cause of visual disability throughout the world. In India uncorrected refractive errors are the most common cause of visual impairment and second major cause of avoidable blindness. Due to this the public health and economic impact of myopia is enormous. Although school vision screening programme is very successful in many states, still a significant number of school going children remain unidentified and the unmet need for correcting refractive errors in children appears to be significant.
近视是屈光不正的一种形式,是全球视力残疾的主要原因。在印度,未矫正的屈光不正问题是视力损害的最常见原因,也是可避免失明的第二大主要原因。因此,近视对公众健康和经济的影响巨大。尽管学校视力筛查计划在许多邦都非常成功,但仍有相当数量的学龄儿童未被发现,而且儿童屈光不正矫正需求未得到满足的情况似乎很严重。