2. I. BACKGROUNDVISION 2020: The right to sight -is a global
initiative to eliminateavoidable blindness by the year 2020.AIM: to
develop sustainablecomprehensive health care system toensure the
best possible vision for allpeople and thereby improve quality
oflife.
3. PRIORITY: 5 preventable/treatable conditions (cataract,
refractive errors and low vision, trachoma, onchocerciasis, and
childhood blindness)-by improving the eye care services and
targeting the 5 diseases globally instead of 75M blind people by
year 2020. the number is calculated to be less than 25M.
4. 75% of blindness and visual impairment in the philippines is
a result of 3 preventable or treatable
conditions:-CATARACT-REFRACTIVE ERRORS and LOW VISION-CAUSES OF
CHILDHOOD BLINDNESSIf priorityis given to these 3 diseases, then in
2020, instead of morethan 790,000 blind people, it is calculated
that there will be less than 300,000.
5. A successful VISION2020 will prevent 400,000 filipinos
becoming blind. VISUAL IMPAIRMENT: 4.62% BILATERAL BLINDNESS: 0.58%
MONOCULAR BLINDNESS:1.07% BLIATERAL LOW VISION: .64% MONOCULAR LOW
VISION: 1.33% Highest prevalence of visual impairment is found in
region 2.
6. The lowest is found in CARAGA. There are almost half a
million blind filipinos today. (as of 2000) There is a decrease
blindness prevalence over the past 7 years. Errors of refraction is
the leading cause of visual impairment and of bilateral ormonocular
low vision.
7. prevalence of blindness among age group of 0-19 is 0.06%.
The causes are cataract, error of refraction, phthisis bulbi,
amblyopia and optic artrophy.
8. II. VISION, MISSION, GOAL ANDOBJECTIVES VISION: All
filipinos enjoy the right to sight by year 2020. MISSION:1.
Strengthen partnership among and with stakeholders to eliminate
avoidable blindness in the philippines2. Empower communities to
take proactive roles in the promotion of eye health and prevention
of blindness3. provide access to quality eye care services for
all
9. 4. Work towards poverty alleviation through preservation and
restoration of sight to indigent Filipinos.GOAL: Reduce the
prevalence of avoidable blindness in the Philippines through the
provision of quality eye careOBJECTIVES:No. 1: Increase cataract
surgical rate from 730 to 2,500 by the year 2010.
10. No.2: Reduce visual impairment due to refractive errors by
10% by the year 2010.No.3: Reduce the prevalence of visual
disability in children from 0.43% to 0.20% by the year 2010.
11. III. INTERVENTIONS BY EYEDISORDER1. CATARACT- Opacification
of the normally clear lens of the eye, is the most common cause of
blindness worlwide.- -cause in 62% of blindness in the Philippines-
CURE: Surgery- INTERVENTIONS: a. Increasing awareness about
cataract and cataract surgeryb. Improving the delivery of cataract
services
12. 2. Errors of refraction- Is the most common cause of visual
impairment in the country.- CURE: are corrected either with
spectacle glasses, contact lenses or surgery- Optometrists
13. 3. Childhood blindness- The prevalence of blindness among
children up to age 19 is 0.06% while the prevalence of visual
impairment in the same group is 0.43%- the problem of childhood
blindness is the highly specialized services that are needed to
diagnose and treat it- screening of children for any sign of visual
ipmairment my be done by pediatricians, school clinics, and health
workers.
14. VISION 2020 Philippines envisions toeliminate avoidable
blindnessthrough 3 strategies:a. Ensuring that cataract surgery is
available, acessible, and affordable to everyone. b. reduction of
the prevalence of cataract, blinding error of refraction and
vitamin A deficiency thru enhanced servicesc. Pooling of resources
of government and non-government agencies to address the problem of
cataract, blinding error or refraction, and vitamin A
deficiency.
