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Stastny, Sherri N.; Garden-Robinson, Julie – Journal of Extension, 2013
This article describes a program for prevention of diabetic retinopathy (DR) that was designed for Extension in collaboration with optometrists. The program was created to increase knowledge and awareness about risk factors for DR and included a game and take-home materials. Participants were asked to play a game similar to Wheel of Fortune. A…
Descriptors: Diseases, Diabetes, Ophthalmology, Prevention
Trutneva, K. – 1972
The booklet describes approaches used in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to prevent blindness. It contrasts conditions prior to 1917 (300 eye doctors mainly located in large cities and 2,000 hospital beds for the 300,000 totally blind and 7,000,000 people with trachoma) with conditions in 1971 when in the Ukraine alone there were 3,000 eye…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Diseases, Exceptional Child Services, Foreign Countries