Preservation and Restoration of Vision:

Resources

On this page:

• Resources and connections on the ICO Eye Site
  
  
• Prevention of blindness publications
  
  
• ICEH offers courses in community eye health
  
  
• Other resources not reported here?

Resources and connections on the ICO Eye Site

To help ophthalmologists, ophthalmologic societies and others contribute to the preservation and restoration of vision, the ICO's Eye Site offers:

• information on existing preservation of vision initiatives, including:
• International Ophthalmology's Vision for the Future
  
  
• VISION 2020: The Right to Sight
  
  
• Research Agenda for Global Blindness Prevention
  
  
• WHO and Non-Governmental Development Organizations (NGOs)
  
  
• ICO preservation of vision programs and initiatives
  
  
• Other initiatives
• suggestions on how ophthalmologic societies and individual ophthalmologists can participate and contribute
  
  
• data on loss of vision and incidence and prevalence of eye conditions
  
  
• publications and other resources available on prevention of blindness
  
  
• information on ophthalmic education, ICO educational initiatives and programs and other educational meetings and tools for ophthalmologists.

Prevention of blindness publications

• World Health Organization Publications
  
  
• Journal of Community Eye Health

ICEH offers courses in community eye health

The International Centre for Eye Health (ICEH) at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine offers a variety of courses related to preservation of vision, including a Masters in Community Eye Health, teaching units on eye diseases and training workshops outside the United Kingdom.

Organized by Dr. Daksha Patel, the one-year Masters in Community Eye Health is designed for eye care personnel who have or could have leadership roles either within their governments or in non-governmental development organizations (NGOs). Nearly all students come from developing countries.

Individual courses which make up part of the MSc, otherwise known as modules, can also be taken. These include:

• Childhood Eye Diseases and Ocular Infections
• Non-communicable Eye Diseases
• How to Plan and Implement a Vision 2020 Project

ICEH Short Courses

• Diploma Course in Community Eye Health
• Planning for VISION 2020
• Tropical Ophthalmology

Other resources not reported here?

If you are aware of other resources for preservation of vision not reported here, please let us know about them.

Next: Ophthalmic Education

Also see: International ophthalmology's Vision for the Future