Corneal blindnesses make up a main public health problem in numerous developing countries where they constitute a sign of low sanitary level. The main diseases which cause corneal blindnesses are: Trachoma. Xerophthalmia. Measles. Corneal ulcerations and keratitis. Onchocercosis. Neonatorum ophthalmia. Leprosy. Injuries. Some therapeutic practices. Epidemiological analysis leads to the definition of risk groups: Small children. Isolated rural communities. Unhealthy urban communities. Out of place populations. Under-fed populations. Only a joint prevention can be able to fight against this social, economic, a human plague constituted by corneal blindnesses. Simple prevention measures which are often not very expensive, showed their efficiency. They are as follows: Individual and collective hygiene measures. Improvement of alimentary conditions. Earliness and quickness in ocular care. Vaccination against measles. Improvement of the care to mother and child. Sanitary education for prevention. These prevention tasks are supported by the health workers who are spread out inside the population. Their formation, the means they are granted with constitute a main priority which has to be taken into account in the choices and the decisions to be made in order to fight against blindness linked with cornea opacification with efficacy.
BT - Revue internationale du trachome et de pathologie oculaire tropicale et subtropicale et de sante publique : organe de la Ligue contre le trachome avec la collaboration de l'International Organization against Trachoma et des organisation... C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2135084?dopt=Abstract DA - 1990 J2 - Rev Int Trach Pathol Ocul Trop Subtrop Sante Publique LA - eng N2 -Corneal blindnesses make up a main public health problem in numerous developing countries where they constitute a sign of low sanitary level. The main diseases which cause corneal blindnesses are: Trachoma. Xerophthalmia. Measles. Corneal ulcerations and keratitis. Onchocercosis. Neonatorum ophthalmia. Leprosy. Injuries. Some therapeutic practices. Epidemiological analysis leads to the definition of risk groups: Small children. Isolated rural communities. Unhealthy urban communities. Out of place populations. Under-fed populations. Only a joint prevention can be able to fight against this social, economic, a human plague constituted by corneal blindnesses. Simple prevention measures which are often not very expensive, showed their efficiency. They are as follows: Individual and collective hygiene measures. Improvement of alimentary conditions. Earliness and quickness in ocular care. Vaccination against measles. Improvement of the care to mother and child. Sanitary education for prevention. These prevention tasks are supported by the health workers who are spread out inside the population. Their formation, the means they are granted with constitute a main priority which has to be taken into account in the choices and the decisions to be made in order to fight against blindness linked with cornea opacification with efficacy.
PY - 1990 SP - 23 EP - 138 T2 - Revue internationale du trachome et de pathologie oculaire tropicale et subtropicale et de sante publique : organe de la Ligue contre le trachome avec la collaboration de l'International Organization against Trachoma et des organisation... TI - Corneal blindnesses in tropical environment. VL - 67 SN - 0246-0831 ER -