Preventable Blindness
Most cases of blindness from glaucoma are.
Preventable blindness. 80 of global blindness is preventable. October 8 global world sight day observance helps put eyecare and healthy vision into focus. Decrease in hearing sensitivity of any level is termed as hearing loss.
Who s work is guided by the recommendations of the who world report on vision 2019 and the resolution on integrated people centred eye care including preventable blindness and vision impairment was adopted at 73rd world health assembly in 2020. Prevent blindness celebrates world sight day. 2020 joanne angle public health award.
The document has moved here. Nutritional causes of blindness are preventable through proper diet. Most traumatic causes of blindness can be prevented through eye protection.
Diabetes is the top cause of blindness in america. Hearing loss and or deafness. Profound inability to distinguish light from dark or the total inability to see.
The best way to avoid diabetic retinopathy the most common cause of blindness in the united states is to prevent diabetes if possible.