Public Health Champions Awardees.
On April 6, 2018, the County of San Diego presented the Shiley Eye Institute EyeMobile for Children at UC San Diego with the Live Well San Diego 2018 Public Health Champion Award for an organization. …
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The UCSD EyeMobile for Children at the Shiley Eye Institute is an unprecedented program that serves as a community health model in overcoming barriers to care for the underserved. Keys to our success include the use of the latest information technologies including electronic medical records, a dedicated multilingual staff, student and community volunteers. The major components of the program are listed below.
Jacqueline couldn’t even write a letter. After she got her glasses, she would write her name and also make pictures with lots of details. As a teacher, I think that it is very important that children are screened as early as possible to meet their educational and developmental needs.SINCERELY, ORALIA (PRESCHOOL TEACHER IN SAN YSIDRO)
Childhood blindness is a solvable crisis.DR. BROWN - CORNEA & ANTERIOR SEGMENT SPECIALIST, FOUNDER OF THE SHILEY EYE INSTITUTE
When I noticed that my middle child, Danielle, was not keeping up with the others, I started to worry. I never suspected she needed glasses. Because my insurance does not cover vision, and I would have to take a day off work to get her an exam, Danielle almost didn’t get the help she needed. The EyeMobile program came to her preschool and did her exam.VICTORIA (MOTHER IN CHULA VISTA)
Looking at the Numbers of Childhood blindness...
The prevention of avoidable visual impairment will be achieved only if effective, efficient, comprehensive eye health-care services are integrated into well managed, well-monitored national health systems.
Strabismus is a lack of alignment between both eyes. Both eyes can not focus on the same object at the same time.
Myopia is when objects are seen clearly when up close, but objects are seen blurry when are far away.
Hyperopia is when objects are seen clearly at a distance, but objects are seen blurry close up.
Astigmatism is when vision is blurry at any distance due to a lack of a single focus cause by shape of the cornea.
Amblyopia; vision in one eye is impaired because the eye and the brain are not working together. The brain will suppress the weaker eye and will take images from the stronger eye. If the condition goes untreated the weaker eye may become useless.
Two studies published by the American Academy of Ophthalmology 40 to 67 percent of children who fail a vision screening do not receive the recommended follow-up care by an eye doctor.
Each year more than 100,000 American children go blind needlessly, simply because they did not receive an eye exam.
75% of all blindness could have been avoided. Source: WHO, Vision 2020 report
About 500 000 children become blind each year, mostly in developing countries, roughly equivalent to one child becoming blind each minute.
Jacqueline couldn’t even write a letter. After she got her glasses, she would write her name and also make pictures with lots of details. As a teacher, I think that it is very important that children are screened as early as possible to meet their educational and developmental needs.SINCERELY, ORALIA (PRESCHOOL TEACHER IN SAN YSIDRO)
Childhood blindness is a solvable crisis.DR. BROWN - CORNEA & ANTERIOR SEGMENT SPECIALIST, FOUNDER OF THE SHILEY EYE INSTITUTE
When I noticed that my middle child, Danielle, was not keeping up with the others, I started to worry. I never suspected she needed glasses. Because my insurance does not cover vision, and I would have to take a day off work to get her an exam, Danielle almost didn’t get the help she needed. The EyeMobile program came to her preschool and did her exam.VICTORIA (MOTHER IN CHULA VISTA)
On April 6, 2018, the County of San Diego presented the Shiley Eye Institute EyeMobile for Children at UC San Diego with the Live Well San Diego 2018 Public Health Champion Award for an organization. …
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exams to the underserved children of San Diego County.