Leveraging Research and Partnership to Achieve Universal Eye Health
My Session Status
When:
1:30 PM, Sunday 16 Jun 2019
(1 hour 30 minutes)
Breaks:
Break 03:00 PM to 03:45 PM (45 minutes)
Where:
Québec City Convention Centre
- Room 205 BC | Salle 205 BC
Theme:
Public Health and Global Ophthalmology
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Apply research to the development of global health programs in eye care
- Leverage partnership and outreach to scale up for universal eye health
- Describe burden of blindness and barrier to access for eye health in Afghans and Syrians
CANMEDS ROLES: Leader, Health Advocate
Sub Sessions
1:35 PM -
1:43 PM |
8 minutes
Authors: Tarek A. Bin Yameen, Myrna LichterAuthor Disclosure Block: T.A. Bin Yameen: None. M. Lichter: None. Abstract Body: Purpose: There is a lack of data on vision problems in a paediatric refugee population in Canada. Given the recent arrival of 40,000 Syrian refugees, we performed a cross-sectional, descriptive study to assess the prevalence of visual impairment and unmet eye care needs of Syrian refugee ch...
1:43 PM -
1:58 PM |
15 minutes
2:13 PM -
2:29 PM |
16 minutes
2:29 PM -
2:42 PM |
13 minutes