Piloting targeted glaucoma screening: experiences of eye care services in Ganjam district, Odisha state, India

Buttan, Sandeep; Gascoyne, Ben; Das, Sudeep; Schmidt, Elena

doi:10.1093/inthealth/ihab078

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“…Gender predilection for glaucoma is still a debated topic in the literature. It was considered that women are more prone to suffer from glaucoma during their lifetime, as several population-based studies indicated in the past [7,8]. This was especially true with PACG in people of Asian descent [3].…”

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Prevalence of glaucoma in the city of Novi Sad

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Introduction/Objective. Our study aimed to estimate the prevalence of glaucoma and its subtypes in the population of Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Serbia, and provide the demographic and clinical analysis of glaucoma patients involved. Methods. Our study was designed as an observational, retrospective, cross-sectional, monocentric, including all the patients with the address of the residence within the city of Novi Sad, with clinically diagnosed glaucoma, at least in one eye, treated at the University Eye Clinic, Clinical Centre of Vojvodina, Novi Sad. We analyzed the five-year prevalence of different types of glaucoma, together with the characteristics of visual field and risk factors in the form of coexisting diabetes mellitus and arterial hypertension. Results. Almost half of 3254 included patients (48.28%) were diagnosed with primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG), and its prevalence in the total population of Novi Sad was estimated to be 0.46%. The prevalence of the other glaucoma types was as follows: primary angle-closure glaucoma (PACG) 0.17%, secondary glaucoma 0.09%, pseudoexfoliation glaucoma 0.09%, normal-tension glaucoma 0.13%, pigmentary glaucoma 0.01%, and juvenile glaucoma 0.01%. In the population above 40 years of age, the prevalence of all glaucoma cases was 1.9%, while the prevalence of POAG was 0.93%, and the prevalence of PACG was 0.35%. Conclusion. Our study represents the first attempt to address the epidemiological problems of glaucoma in our region in a comprehensive, evidence-based way. The prevalence of various glaucoma types and observed age-specific prevalence trends were lower than those published by other authors involving comparable populations, and we offered several potential explanations for this in our paper.

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Prevalence of glaucoma in the city of Novi Sad

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“…The tourism industry has characteristics such as boundary ambiguity, association-driven, and effect externalities [26]. The tourism industry is oriented by tourism demand and links related industries together through tourism activities to jointly provide tourists with integrated services that include food, accommodation, shopping, entertainment, and sightseeing tours [27]. The integration of the rural revitalization industry chain with tourism can improve the comprehensive benefits of traditional rural industries by functional extension, and also integrate tourism into the modern rural industry system, extend the rural industry chain, and promote structural optimization.…”

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Exploring the integration development path of rural tourism and rural revitalization under the perspective of self-media development and communication

Liao

2023

Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences

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With the rapid development of Internet information technology, artificial intelligence, and other emerging industries, the boundaries between industries have become increasingly blurred, showing a new trend of cross-fertilization development. Achieving industrial integration development has become an important symbol for each region to build a modern industrial system and achieve high-quality economic development. This paper constructs a fusion development path with the help of rural tourism and rural revitalization fusion bases, such as policy factors and the divided self-media model. Combined with the entropy value method to calculate the weight of each index in the integration development path evaluation system, the integration development path is evaluated. The analysis of the model’s obstacle degree and coordination degree shows that the path’s integration development behavior is an important influencing factor from 2017 to 2021, and the annual average value of the obstacle degree is as high as 55.73%.Furthermore, the average obstacle degree of revitalization industry chain extension in five years is 52.37%. The coordination degree of the integration development path has increased from mild disorder to primary coordination, with coordination degrees of 0.334, 0.435, and 0.612, respectively, with an average annual increase of nearly 15%. This fully indicates that the integrated development path of rural tourism and revitalization begins to gradually step into a mature stage under the influence of the communication vision of self-media development.

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Barriers and Potential Solutions to Glaucoma Screening in the Developing World: A Review

Meethal,

Sisodia,

George

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Journal of Glaucoma

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Purpose: Glaucoma is a leading public health concern globally and its detection and management are way more complex and challenging in the developing world. This review article discusses barriers to glaucoma screening in developing countries from the perspective of different key stakeholders and proposes solutions. Methods/Results: A literature search was carried out in the electronic catalogs of PubMed, Medline, and Cochrane database of systematic reviews to find studies that focused on barriers and enablers to glaucoma screening. The authors’ interpretations were tabulated as descriptive and qualitative data and presented concisely from the point of view of key stakeholders such as the patients and their relatives, care providers, and system/governing bodies. Key barriers to glaucoma care identified are lack of awareness, poor accessibility to ophthalmic centers, inadequately trained human resources, unsatisfactory infrastructure, and non-availability of financially viable screening programs. Educating care providers as well as the public, providing care closer to where people live, and developing cost-effective screening strategies are needed to ensure proper identification of glaucoma patients in developing countries. Conclusions: The logistics of glaucoma detection and management are complex. Hence, glaucoma detection programs should be implemented only when facilities for glaucoma management are in place. Understanding the importance of glaucoma screening and its future implications, addressing the various roadblocks, empowering and efficiently implementing the existing strategies, and incorporating novel ones using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Deep Learning (DL) will help in establishing a robust glaucoma screening program in developing countries.

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Piloting targeted glaucoma screening: experiences of eye care services in Ganjam district, Odisha state, India

Cited by 3 publications

References 31 publications

Prevalence of glaucoma in the city of Novi Sad

Prevalence of glaucoma in the city of Novi Sad

Exploring the integration development path of rural tourism and rural revitalization under the perspective of self-media development and communication

Barriers and Potential Solutions to Glaucoma Screening in the Developing World: A Review

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