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The next generation of artificial vision devices (AVDs), which is currently developed in pre-clinical settings, has the … potential to improve the vision of blind patients with retinitis pigmentosa (RP) in a manner that they will be categorized as … visual impaired but no more as blind. This unprecedented vision improvement will result in a mentionable quality of life gain …
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Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine the health and social care information needs of people with a visual impairment; to identify the health and social care information sources used by visually‐impaired people seeking information; to identify differences in the information needs...
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upon some of Saramago's literary achievements. Findings – Black blindness, e.g. the absence of vision through an extreme …Purpose – Seeing, one might say, is everything between black blindness and white blindness: between not seeing because … that which produces vision (usually the sun or God). Within organizational literature, organizations have often been linked …
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infant blindness prevention set up to serve rural India. Design/methodology/approach – The paper describes the two‐plus years … initiative paved the way for the first public‐private partnership in infant blindness prevention in India which is poised for a …
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The next generation of artificial vision devices (AVDs), which is currently developed in pre-clinical settings, has the … potential to improve the vision of blind patients with retinitis pigmentosa (RP) in a manner that they will be categorized as … visual impaired but no more as blind. This unprecedented vision improvement will result in a mentionable quality of life gain …
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Analysis of 14 household surveys from 13 developing countries suggests that 1–2 percent of the population have disabilities. Adults with disabilities typically live in poorer than average households: disability is associated with about a 10 percentage point increase in the probability of...
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In an earlier article, the authors outline some reasons for the disappointingly small effects of primary health care programs and identified two weak links standing between spending and increased health care. The first was the inability to translate public expenditure on health care into real...
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generate loss of vision and irreversible legal blindness is essential to understand the socioeconomic impact associated with …Objective To estimate the economic impact for the society, generated as a consequence of the onset of loss of vision … and irreversible legal blindness, for the main ophthalmologic diseases in Spain: glaucoma, diabetic retinopa- thy (DR …
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