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Global Blindness: Planning and Managing Eye Care Services 

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Global Blindness: Planning and Managing Eye Care Services
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Overview

Duration

6 weeks

Total fee

₹2,763

Mode of learning

Online

Credential

Certificate

Global Blindness: Planning and Managing Eye Care Services
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FutureLearn 
Highlights

  • Duration 6 weeks
  • Weekly study 4 hours
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Global Blindness: Planning and Managing Eye Care Services
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FutureLearn 
Course details

Skills you will learn
French
More about this course
  • 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.
  • Content on this course is also provided in Chinese, Spanish and Portuguese:
  • A separate French course is available:

Global Blindness: Planning and Managing Eye Care Services
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FutureLearn 
Curriculum

The burden of avoidable blindness

Introduction

Basic epidemiology

Epidemiology of visual impairment

Epidemiology informs eye care development

VISION 2020 and Universal Eye Health

Eliminating avoidable blindness

Think globally and act locally

Cataract control strategies

How many surgeries are needed?

Managing the quality and cost of cataract surgery

Refractive error control strategies

Refractive errors and school health

Service provision for refractive errors

How to plan

Planning: analysing the situation

Setting the programme direction

Implementing and monitoring the plan

Planning the implementation

Monitoring and evaluation

Case study: monitoring and evaluation

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