Background: Age-related macular degeneration is a progressive deterioration of the central vision that commonly affects elderly individuals. It is a leading cause of irreversible vision loss in older adults globally. Early ...
Background: Improving warehouse management performance is crucial. It acts as protection against supply chain ambiguities and breakdowns, which is especially true in contexts with little resources. If the warehouse is ...
Introduction: Eye care service utilization is crucial for reducing preventable and treatable
blindness, especially during childhood when visual development is critical. In African nations,
the primary causes of childhood ...
Background: Myopia is a refractive error which is characterized by an impaired ability to see distant objects clearly. If it is not corrected timely leads to visual impairment. There is limited evidence about myopia among ...
Introduction: Cataract is the leading cause of preventable blindness that contributes 51% of blindness in worldwide. Cataract surgery is the only cost-effective treatment options of cataract. However, poor visual outcome ...
Background: The increasing prevalence of depression and anxiety among the visually impaired adults has become a serious health issue that needs serious attention. Yet relatively little is known about it, particularly in ...
Background: Diabetes mellitus has significant ocular morbidity leading to visual impairment
and blindness. Regular eye check-up among diabetic patients is needed for early detection
of ocular complications, this in return ...
Introduction: Symptomatic dry eye disease is a multi-factorial ocular surface condition that occurs due to a disturbance in the pre-corneal tear film, and its' magnitude is increasing due to the increase in the number of ...
Introduction: Good parental knowledge and favorable attitude towards childhood blindness is important for early detection and management of the cause and prevention of the lifelong burden of childhood blindness.
Objective: ...
Introduction: Cataract is the leading cause of blindness globally and accounts for half of the total
blindness in Ethiopia. Despite it is treatable, the lack of knowledge about cataract and its treatment
is still a major ...
Background: Cyclosporine is one of the powerful immunosuppressant drugs commonly used to avoid transplant
rejection and autoimmune condition management. However, this drug has many side effects, such as ne
phrotoxicity, ...
Background: Oral diseases are a public health concern with a significant impact on the quality of life of individuals.
Children with special needs face significant challenges in carrying out oral hygiene due to their ...
Introduction: Congenital epulis, also known as Neumann’s tumor, is an uncommon benign tumor of the oral
mucosa that occurs in newborns. It is a rare condition, with fewer than 250 reported cases worldwide. The exact
...
Background Malocclusion is one of the most common oral health conditions globally, following dental caries and
periodontal disease. It affects both function and appearance and can lead to psychological distress, social ...
Background: Oral health care is the most common unmet need among individuals with a disability. Individuals with a disability may
have compromised oral health needs due to neglect from parents, socioeconomic problems, ...
Objectives: People living with disability are more vulnerable to dental caries and
have a high decayed, missed, and filled permanent teeth (DMFT) index and
untreated dental disease than nondisabled individuals. In ...
Introduction: Self-medication defined as selection and use of medicines by individuals to treat self-recognized illnesses or symptoms. Worldwide, the prevalence of ophthalmic self-medication ranges from 23.3% to 73.6 %. ...
Introduction: Clinically significant anisometropia is a serious health problem commonly
encountered in adult patients with refractive error. However, there was no study on the
prevalence and associated factors of clinically ...
Introduction: Myopia is recognized as a significant global public health and socioeconomic problem that will affect billions of people in the subsequent decades. Myopia exists expansively among students and affects not ...
Introduction: Cataract is a major cause of preventable blindness in the world. It was
estimated that 2.2 billion people had visual impairment across the world, of which
around 65.2 million were due to cataract and the ...