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Blindness. (Fuera de cartelera) Drama Inmersivo. Finalizó el 31 de octubre de 2021. Dramaturgia: Simon Stephens. Dirección: Mauricio García Lozano y Walter Meierjohann. Voz: Marina de Tavira. UNA EXPERIENCIA NARRATIVA, SONORA y LUMINOSA, basada en la novela del premio Nobel José Saramago “Ensayo Sobre la Ceguera”.
- Overview
- Causes
- Prevalence
- Impact of Vision Impairment
- Strategies to Address Eye Conditions to Avoid Vision Impairment
- Who Response
Vision, the most dominant of our senses, plays a critical role in every facet and stage of our lives. We take vision for granted, but without vision, we struggle to learn, to walk, to read, to participate in school and to work. Vision impairment occurs when an eye condition affects the visual system and its vision functions. Everyone, if they live ...
Globally, the leading causes of vision impairment and blindness are: 1. refractive errors 2. cataract 3. diabetic retinopathy 4. glaucoma 5. age-related macular degeneration. There is substantial variation in the causes of vision impairment between and within countries according to the availability of eye care services, their affordability, and the...
Globally, at least 2.2 billion people have a near or distance vision impairment. In at least 1 billion – or almost half – of these cases, vision impairment could have been prevented or has yet to be addressed. Among this 1 billion people, the main conditions causing distance vision impairment or blindness are cataract (94 million), refractive error...
Personal impact
Young children with early onset irreversible severe vision impairment can experience delayed motor, language, emotional, social and cognitive development, with lifelong consequences. School-age children with vision impairment can also experience lower levels of educational achievement. Vision impairment severely impacts quality of life among adult populations. Adults with vision impairment can experience lower rates of employment and higher rates of depression and anxiety. In the case of olde...
Economic impact
Vision impairment poses an enormous global financial burden with an estimate annual global productivity loss of about US$ 411 billion purchasing power parity (3). This figure far outweighs the estimated cost gap of addressing the unmet need of vision impairment (estimated at about US$ 25 billion).
There are effective interventions covering promotion, prevention, treatment and rehabilitation which address the needs associated with eye conditions and vision impairment. While many vision loss cases can be prevented (such as those due to infections, trauma, unsafe traditional medicines, perinatal diseases, nutrition-related diseases, unsafe use ...
WHO’s work is guided by the recommendations of the WHO World report on vision (2019) and the resolution on "integrated, people-centred eye care, including preventable blindness and vision impairment" adopted at the Seventy-third World Health Assembly in 2020. The key proposal is to make integrated people-centred eye care (IPEC) the care model of ch...
Las principales causas a nivel mundial de la discapacidad visual y la ceguera son los errores de refracción y las cataratas. Se estima que, a nivel mundial, solo el 36% de las personas con un deterioro de la visión lejana debido a errores de refracción y el 17% de las personas con discapacidad visual debida a las cataratas han tenido acceso ...
Blindness (en español, Ceguera o A ciegas) es una película de género dramático con connotaciones alegóricas de ciencia ficción, dirigida por Fernando Meirelles. Es una adaptación de la novela Ensayo sobre la ceguera, de 1995, del escritor portugués José Saramago.
Causes of blindness and vision impairment in 2020 and trends over 30 years, and prevalence of avoidable blindness in relation to VISION 2020: the Right to Sight: an analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study
- Gbd Blindness
- 2021
26 de abr. de 2018 · Summary. If you have low vision, eyeglasses, contact lenses, medicine, or surgery may not help. Activities like reading, shopping, cooking, writing, and watching TV may be hard to do. The leading causes of low vision and blindness in the United States are age-related eye diseases: macular degeneration, cataract and glaucoma.
A document outlining current status of visual health, blindness and visual impairment, resources and infrastructure availability in the Region. This document (based on country reports) will constitute the basis for future monitoring and evaluation. A document outlining 20 years’ strategic plan for Vision 2020, with targets, indicators and ...
