Download or read book Examination of the eyes and vision at Child Health Clinics written by Sics Editore and published by SICS Editore. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strabismus is always an indication for referral to an ophthalmologist.A delay in the development of visual communication is a sign of a disturbance of the cerebral function. Because it affects both the child’s development and the family dynamics, the infant should be promptly referred for further investigations and the whole family should be provided early rehabilitation. The eyes of children at risk should be examined and possible refractive errors diagnosed during early development.As regards strabismus and amblyopia, risk groups include infants who have close relatives with these disorders. Another risk group includes infants and children with some other diagnosed impairment, delayed motor or cognitive development, muscular hypotonia, hearing impairment, or a diagnosed condition or disease that is often associated with visual impairment or severe refractive errors (Down’s syndrome).
Download or read book Medical and psychological examinations at Child Health Clinics written by Sics Editore and published by SICS Editore. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Finland, all the children are routinely examined by a paediatrician before being discharged from the maternity hospital. At a Child Health Clinic a doctor re-examines all children at 6–8 weeks, 4 months, 8 months, 18 months and 5 years, and whenever possible at 3 years. These examinations are described in this article.
Download or read book Making Eye Health a Population Health Imperative written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-01-15 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ability to see deeply affects how human beings perceive and interpret the world around them. For most people, eyesight is part of everyday communication, social activities, educational and professional pursuits, the care of others, and the maintenance of personal health, independence, and mobility. Functioning eyes and vision system can reduce an adult's risk of chronic health conditions, death, falls and injuries, social isolation, depression, and other psychological problems. In children, properly maintained eye and vision health contributes to a child's social development, academic achievement, and better health across the lifespan. The public generally recognizes its reliance on sight and fears its loss, but emphasis on eye and vision health, in general, has not been integrated into daily life to the same extent as other health promotion activities, such as teeth brushing; hand washing; physical and mental exercise; and various injury prevention behaviors. A larger population health approach is needed to engage a wide range of stakeholders in coordinated efforts that can sustain the scope of behavior change. The shaping of socioeconomic environments can eventually lead to new social norms that promote eye and vision health. Making Eye Health a Population Health Imperative: Vision for Tomorrow proposes a new population-centered framework to guide action and coordination among various, and sometimes competing, stakeholders in pursuit of improved eye and vision health and health equity in the United States. Building on the momentum of previous public health efforts, this report also introduces a model for action that highlights different levels of prevention activities across a range of stakeholders and provides specific examples of how population health strategies can be translated into cohesive areas for action at federal, state, and local levels.
Download or read book Visual Impairments written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2002-08-17 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When children and adults apply for disability benefits and claim that a visual impairment has limited their ability to function, the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) is required to determine their eligibility. To ensure that these determinations are made fairly and consistently, SSA has developed criteria for eligibility and a process for assessing each claimant against the criteria. Visual Impairments: Determining Eligibility for Social Security Benefits examines SSA's methods of determining disability for people with visual impairments, recommends changes that could be made now to improve the process and the outcomes, and identifies research needed to develop improved methods for the future. The report assesses tests of visual function, including visual acuity and visual fields whether visual impairments could be measured directly through visual task performance or other means of assessing disability. These other means include job analysis databases, which include information on the importance of vision to job tasks or skills, and measures of health-related quality of life, which take a person-centered approach to assessing visual function testing of infants and children, which differs in important ways from standard adult tests.
Download or read book Eye and Vision Care Services for California Children written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Services for Children with Eye Problems written by American Public Health Association. Program Area Committee on Child Health and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Your Preschool Child s Eyes written by United States. Children's Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eye Examination Findings Among Children United States written by Jean Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vision Screening of Children written by United States. Maternal and Child Health Service and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Pediatric Eye Exam Quick Reference Guide Office and Emergency Room Procedures written by Zhu-Tam, Lily and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2022-02-18 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a need for comprehensive books that provide crucial information in a clear and direct manner, particularly in the medical field. Currently, there are limited resources available to students and clinicians that provide step-by-step procedures with pictures on how to examine the eye in the pediatric population. The Pediatric Eye Exam Quick Reference Guide: Office and Emergency Room Procedures is a clinical procedure book to provide step-by-step pediatric eye care examination techniques and is an important addition to the field of eye care. The chapters are written by leading pediatric optometrists and ophthalmologists in the field. Years of academic and clinical experiences from schools of optometry, hospital-based eye care, and private practice are all presented in a user-friendly format with clinical pearls and insights that will help any clinician perform a pediatric eye exam easily and efficiently. Covering a range of critical topics such as pupil examination, visual field testing, refraction, and ocular emergencies and providing pictures, it is ideal for all students, residents, academicians, trainers, and novel and seasoned clinicians who are interested in learning how to examine a pediatric patient and staying on top of the latest pediatric eye care procedures.
Download or read book Assessment of vision written by Sics Editore and published by SICS Editore. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basic functions of vision can be accurately assessed in primary health care provided that the test methods are known and the instructions followed. Visual acuity depicts the size of the smallest figures that can be correctly recognized. Contrast sensitivity depicts the ability to perceive small differences in luminance between adjacent surfaces. Visual field depicts the area that a person can see without moving his/her eyes. Presbyopia requires special attention at workplaces (see ).
Download or read book The Future of Nursing written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Future of Nursing explores how nurses' roles, responsibilities, and education should change significantly to meet the increased demand for care that will be created by health care reform and to advance improvements in America's increasingly complex health system. At more than 3 million in number, nurses make up the single largest segment of the health care work force. They also spend the greatest amount of time in delivering patient care as a profession. Nurses therefore have valuable insights and unique abilities to contribute as partners with other health care professionals in improving the quality and safety of care as envisioned in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) enacted this year. Nurses should be fully engaged with other health professionals and assume leadership roles in redesigning care in the United States. To ensure its members are well-prepared, the profession should institute residency training for nurses, increase the percentage of nurses who attain a bachelor's degree to 80 percent by 2020, and double the number who pursue doctorates. Furthermore, regulatory and institutional obstacles-including limits on nurses' scope of practice-should be removed so that the health system can reap the full benefit of nurses' training, skills, and knowledge in patient care. In this book, the Institute of Medicine makes recommendations for an action-oriented blueprint for the future of nursing.
Download or read book Services for Children with Vision and Eye Problems written by American Public Health Association. Committee on Child Health and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vision and Hearing Screening in Selected Classes for the Mentally Retarded City of Detroit Michigan written by Michigan. Bureau of Maternal and Child Health and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Developmental Examination of Infants and Preschool Children written by Dorothy F. Egan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a practical guide for primary-care doctors and health visitors involved in the detection of developmental problems in children whose parents are worried that their child is not developing like other children. It will be of assistance to pediatricians and pediatric neurologists in providing a developmental perspective in the diagnostic process in their work with children with chronic neurological disorders. The tests described have been standardized by the author and cover the essentials of developmental examination: history--including parents' views of their child's development; clinical tests of hearing; examination of visual behavior and visual acuity; observation of developing motor skills; language/performance profiles in which any substantial unevenness or an overall low score may reveal a developmental problem. In practice the range of average ability is wide, so a distinctive feature of this book is a standardized data base in graphical form that can be used to identify readily those children (lowest twenty percent) who warrant further specialist investigation or treatment. It is particularly relevant today when general practitioners are being directed to take an active role in such preventive work.
Download or read book Vision Screening of Children written by Jane S. Lin-Fu and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evidence Based Medicine Guidelines written by Duodecim Medical Publications and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-03-04 with total page 1428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evidence-Based Medicine Guidelines fills the demand for a handbook discussing the diagnosis and treatment of a wide range of diseases and conditions encountered by health care professionals. The title was first published in Finland by the Finnish Medical Society, where it is now considered to be the single most important support tool for the physicians' decision making in their daily work. What sets EBM Guidelines apart from competing books? Provides physicians with fast and easy access to practice guidelines based on the best available research evidence Covers practically all medical conditions encountered in general practice Developed by over 300 experienced general practitioners and specialists worldwide Includes both diagnostic and therapeutic guidelines, and recommendations on diagnostic tests and drug dosage Presented in a user-friendly format with self contained chapters based on clinical subjects Clear and concise explanations of all available evidence results in the guideline for treatment The strength of evidence is graded from A-D making this title a quick and easy reference whenever and wherever you need it! Assumes no prior knowledge of EBM or statistics - all the work of searching and appraisal has been done for you! Seeks to include guidelines where clinical evidence is incomplete or unavailable Contains full-colour photographs and tables throughout Easy-to-read and fast support at the point of care - EBM Guidelines: Summarises the best available evidence - Cochrane reviews - DARE abstracts - Clinical Evidence topics - original articles in medical journals - abstracts in the Health Technology Assessment Database - NHS Economic Evaluation Evaluates and grades the strength of all individual evidence from A (Strong research-based evidence) to D (No scientific evidence) Suggests guidelines based on clinical evidence. If clinical evidence is inadequate or missing, an expert panel evaluate all other available information and suggests the appropriate guideline With over 1000 problem-orientated or disease-specific guidelines including reference to evidence summaries for all guidelines, this title is the most extensive collection of guidelines for primary care today. Here are just a few examples of the raving reviews for Evidence-Based Medicine Guidelines: "An excellent resource... quick to use, even during consultations...very helpful to check whether our preferred diagnostic and therapeutic methods are adequate...competent suggestions based on real evidence..." —Heinz Bhend, PRIMARY CARE "clinically useful answers...easy-to-read ...this resource is worth using..." —Carl Heneghan, Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Oxford, UK, EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE Journal
