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Determining barriers to use of eye care services is critical for planning strategies to prevent blindness. Traditional practices, beliefs, fatalistic attitudes towards blindness, fear of treatment, lack of faith in the intervention, and fear about the surgical procedure influence the behavior of patients, leading to low acceptance levels. These are the principal barriers that would have to be addressed if uptake of services is to be improved. Health education, individual counseling, and using operated patients as motivators can help overcome this problem. Disease
Abstract: This article describes about some factors that affect the eye care community from reaching the eye care services. It also lists out the reasons for the poor utilization of the cataract services. It also tells about how to create awareness amongst the eye care needy to fetch for the eye care services. Abstract This study was conducted to determine the utilization of cataract surgery and the level of physical and psychosocial impairment and the socioeconomic barriers to cataract surgery in a group of non-acceptors of surgery in Nepal region. Abstract This study was conducted to determine patient-related barriers to cataract services in the Upper East Region of Ghana and their resolution. Abstract This article lists out the cost and other socio-economic barriers which prevent the community from reaching the eye care providers and also suggest how these barriers could be further reduced for providing effective eye care service delivery. Abstract The purpose of the study is to assess the barriers for the acceptance of surgery among patients with cataract and visual disability. Abstract The study was conducted to identify the barrier which prevents women from accessing cataract surgery in Urban Cape Town, South Africa. Abstract This article tells in detail about the study conducted in Karnataka to analyze the alternative strategies to increase the uptake of cataract surgery are recommended. Abstract This article addresses the social, cultural and economic barriers which affects the patients from reaching the hospital and how to create awareness among patients about cataract surgery in developing countries. Abstract This article describes about the self-administered questionnaire structured by Seventy nine ophthalmologists to understand the level of awareness and barriers/ constraints to provision of low vision services. Significant factors associated with each barrier/ constraint and perceptions on providing low vision care were investigated. The main aim of the questionnaire survey is to identify and report the perceived barriers to the provision of low vision services among ophthalmologists in India.
Abstract This article describes how the Public-private partnership between the government and the private providers in rural areas can help provide quality Health care to rural people using existing government infrastructure. It also states that how these organizations can become important partners in spreading high quality eye care to the remotest villages in India. It also lists out the gap between the eye care providers and community and suggests some strategies for bridging the gap and providing quality eye care service. Abstract This study was conducted to understand the reasons why people in rural south India with visual impairment arising from various ocular diseases do not seek eye care. |
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Abstract: This articles focus primarily on the supply issues of eye care service delivery, looking particularly at how increasing operational and manufacturing efficiencies can reduce costs to an affordable level. Abstract: This article describes how the effective Social Marketing helps to create understanding and improves the quality of eye care services through an information campaign clear any misconceptions in the community. Abstract: The objective of the study is to assess the level of awareness of eye diseases in the urban population of Hyderabad in southern India. Author: Dr Susan Lewallen, Dr Robert Geneau, Mr Michael Mahande Abstract: This report and study were undertaken with the broad aim of learning about the capacity and willingness to pay for cataract surgery in Tanzania. Abstract: This article describes a dramatic illustration from China showing the imbalance between the provision and use of cataract services; a fully equipped department, with advanced technology and 24 ophthalmologists, performed less than 100 cataract operations in a year. It also suggests the need for balance between supply and demand and making the cataract services more affordable. |
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An estimated half of those for whom medicines are prescribed do not take them in the recommended way. Until recently this was termed "non-compliance", and was sometimes regarded as a manifestation of irrational behavior or willful failure to observe instructions, although forgetfulness is probably a more common reason. But today health care professionals prefer to talk about "adherence" to a regimen rather than "compliance".
There have been many studies of the effects of different strategies in improving adherence to therapy. These include reducing the frequency of administration during the day and reducing the numbers of medicines a patient has to take. However, there is no evidence that such measures are effective. Nevertheless, it seems likely that adherence can be improved by taking care to explain the benefits and adverse effects of a drug. In a busy clinic it is too easy for the prescriber to give out a prescription with little or no explanation. It also makes sense to reduce the frequency of taking medicine to once or twice a day: though again, there is no evidence that this tactic is effective. Causes for poor compliance are: Forgetfulness Prescription not collected or not dispensed Purpose of treatment not clear Perceived lack of effect Real or perceived side-effects Instructions for administration not clear Physical difficulty in complying (e.g. opening medicine containers, handling small tablets, swallowing difficulties, travel to place of treatment) Unattractive formulation, such as unpleasant taste Complicated regimen Cost factor
Abstract: This article tells about the need for the Glaucoma compliance by the patients to the Doctors and also suggests the ways how the patient compliance can be improved. Abstract: This article briefs about various compliances given by the patients who seek for thee treatment of glaucoma. Abstract: This study reflects a need for reorientation of glaucoma management. Abstract: This article examines the process of communication in terms of need, opportunity and means. It also examine the potential benefits of improved communication between health care professionals and community members in terms of what health care professionals might learn from the community. Abstract This information describes about the Sewa’s community eye health programme that bridges the gap between the service provider and the community. Abstract This article gives the experience of the eye hospital of the Vivekananda Mission Ashram, where we have found that patient counsellors make a major contribution to increasing the uptake of cataract services, particularly intraocular lens (IOL) surgery. RD Thulasiraj Abstract This article focuses on using advocacy as a tool for improving the delivery of eye care services - both in terms of reaching more people, and in terms of improving the quality of services available for specific eye conditions. |
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People's use of health services is influenced by a range of psychological, social, cultural, economic and practical factors. Eye care services are no exception. Nevertheless, there has been a tendency to assume that if eye services are available then people in need will use them. But in areas with poor utilization of services there is need for demand generation. This section will provide you with resource related to demand generation. It will help you to develop various demand generation strategies which can be used to get more patients.
Abstract: This article briefs about the barriers which prevent from accessing the cataract services in India. It also describes how the effective Social marketing helps for preventing these barriers. Abstract: This is a web search for few resources from KCCO. Abstract: This article describes the perspective of the elderly people about cataract. It also the global thought of the elderly people for treatment their mentality. It also clearly suggests how the socio economic barriers while treating the elderly people for cataract will be effectively tackled by providing quality and eminent service for the poor people. It also tells how the demand for the prevalence of blindness could be increased for the elderly people. Abstract This article briefs about the factors which affect the women from reaching for the eye care services and how this strategy has been quietly changing in various parts of the world and how this could bee achieved with the help of counselling. |
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South African National Council for the Blind (SANCB)
The South African National Council for the Blind (SANCB) is a Non-Government Organisation (NGO) striving to meet the needs of all blind and partially sighted people in South Africa. The services include rehabilitation, education and training, the provision of assistive devices, social and economic development and programmes promoting the prevention of blindness and the restoration of sight. Now in its 78th year of operation, the SANCB comprises a head office, nine provincial offices and 95 member organisations, which include workshops, self-help groups and 19 schools for blind and partially sighted learners – making it the largest NGO in South Africa. It is affiliated to several international organisations. We are committed to:
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