Price:
6214 EUR
Contact
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Description
Find out how to plan and manage eye care, to avoid blindness
Around the world, 285 million people are blind or visually impaired. 75% of this is avoidable and 90% is in low- and middle-income countries. In this online course we highlight the key facts about avoidable blindness and global initiatives to address it.
Translations
Content on this course is also provided in Chinese, Spanish and Portuguese:
中文:课程信息 PDF
Español: Información del curso PDF
Português: Informação do curso PDF
A separate French course is available:
La Cécité dans le Monde: Planifier et Gérer les Services de Soins Oculaires
This course is intended for all health care providers, health managers, NGO staff with an interest and some experience of, eye care health services. The course will especially benefit:
Eye health providers who lead or manage the service provision of an eye unit or eye care team
All clinical eye care providers who work in isolated and remote settings
Eye care providers with an interest in public health approaches
Any health providers and managers with an interest in resource limited eye care services
Non-governmental staff involved in developing eye care projects in low- and middle-income countries
Charity organisations and philanthropists involved in supporting eye care service provision
Ophthalmic residents and nurses in training programmes with an interest in low- and middle-income health services
Trainers in academic institutions with an interest in developing training in public health approaches for eye care service provision for their local setting.
Specific details
Category of Education
Medicine and Healthcare
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