Introduction It is estimated by World Health Organization (WHO) that there were about 39 million blind people in 2010. 90% of the blind people live in developing countries and over 80% of the blindness is treatable or avoidable. China, a country of a total population over 1.3 billion, is estimated to have 5 million blind people. This number of blind people represents for 18% of the blindness in world and is the largest amount of blind people in a single country. The leading cause of blindness in China is cataract which prefers inflexibility and clouding of lens in the eyes mainly associated with aging. Blindness caused by cataract accounts for approximately 50% of China's blind or 2.5 million people. According to the Chinese Ministry of Health, it is estimated about 400,000 people would become totally blind each year because of cataracts alone. The number of people who are blind from cataract will be doubled and reaching 5 million by 2020 if the current trend continues. Besides as a public health and social problem in China, blindness also has negative impact on the …show more content…
The elderly population over 60 years is expected to grow by 90% and this population group would reach 240 million by 2020. 60% of population in China or around 800 million people live in rural area where economic is underdeveloped. About 45% of the 2,400 county hospitals in the rural area are not able to perform the cataract surgery. They either do not have a trained and qualified cataract surgeon, or appropriate equipment and supplies for the procedure. This makes the cataract surgical coverage in China is far behind the estimated needs by 80%. The patients who need the procedure is estimated to exceed 2 million. Majority of the patients who need the surgery live in the rural areas. Most of them may even be unaware of the cataract disease and the need of the
When reading Stereo Sue by Oliver Sack in 2006, I realized how important our vision is in multiple ways. The memory of a close friend that passed a few years ago continued to come to mind. My friend named Bill Vickery lost his vision after a surgery on his optic nerve where the nerve was beyond repair and completely damaged. Shortly after his surgery and the loss of sight be started to fall into depression and I was able to see he really needed some help.
In his article, “A Cure in Sight,” David Dobbs writes about the end of blindness. Early on in this piece of writing, Dobbs states that doctors, scientists, and other professionals should plan on finding options for curing blindness by the year of 2026. In the article, Dobbs discusses the several, potential methods of treatment, which may result in the cure of blindness. Right now, the treatments tested include gene-replacement, stem cells, and bionic implants.
“Some can’t be that simple. I know I never could,” says Mrs. Freeman in the ending of the story, which means that perfection is difficult to achieve. However, in the book, Mrs. Freeman and other characters judge people around them just by their appearance. Flannery O’Connor’s “Good Country People” criticizes the people of the American South for their moral blindness and hypocrisy as well as people’s negative habits of stereotyping, being contradictory and cliché. The book delivers the message to be critical and to see things beyond the border.
Introduction Vision is one of our most valuable sensory modalities, it is the way that we as individuals identify our surroundings and ourselves. African American children at a young age are more susceptible to having eye problems mainly because of the fact that they are still children and still exploring their surroundings. It is estimated that around 500,000 children become blind each year but that number is expected to grow. In developing countries that statistic is even worse as around 60 percent of individuals die within a year of becoming blinded (NIH, et al, 2015). This brings about the question as to what are the true causes of these blindness’s
Buddhism in China DBQ A little before the Tang dynasty there was the Han dynasty where Confucianism was a staple of daily life and government. When the Han dynasty dissolved and the Tang dynasty took authority. Buddhism began to spread widely all over China. Buddhism was met with all types of responses: some saw buddhism as a threat to Confucian family values, while some saw Buddhism as a way to disregard worldly pleasures and luxuries that would only bring them harm, and lastly some mixed on the concept of Buddhism had an issue with the ascetic lifestyle led by its followers. One of the responses to Buddhism in China was that it was thought that Buddhism was a threat to Confucian family values.
In Jorge Luis Borges 's essay,”Blindness”, the author describes his feelings toward his disability. His primary audience are readers who want to learn more about the author disability and for people who are struggling with similar disabilities. His purpose is trying to interpret how the author dealt with his blindness and sharing his personal life to the Readers. Borges does this by using flashbacks and interprets the flashbacks and the challenges that he had to go through. He goes back and forth talking about the positives and negative of dealing with his blindness.
Free market reforms took over, as the government removed itself from funding hospitals and health services (Brink, 2015). Health care organizations turned into for-profit institutions, and healthcare workers were rewarded for increasing profits of hospitals (Mitsuhashi, 2005). The barefoot doctors promptly declined for they lost the trust of their local communities, reducing the numbers of patients they saw and transforming their practice to a more lucrative high paying practice that was becoming more popular in rural areas (Woodruff, 1986). The effects of these reforms had an extreme impact on Chinese citizens; in 1999 the number of rural people with health insurance was reduced to only 7% (Brink, 2015). The general distrust that was formed between citizens and healthcare professionals led to an extremely unstable society, plagued with discontent and anger towards the Chinese government.
The history of blindness came from a time where it was difficult to even keep someone around that was blind. People were giving away their children, abandon them, leaving them to die (Omvig 2017). As shocking as it is, of course everyone is scared of the unknown, this was not very common and seeing someone who was blind was a whole new thing. Once it became a very common
The air pollution in china has affected the people in China. The government of china should pull together with America and other countries to help build up new inventions to help to help
Assalamualaikum, and good afternoon to everyone. My name is Nur Syahirah Bt Muhammad Shah. I feel so glad to be here today. Firstly, I would like to ask you a question, did you know how many people suffered from the illness because not getting healthcare?
Appearance can be misleading, the obvious things we see are not always how things are in real. In Oedipus the King, Sophocle exposes the trick of nature which is "what we see is not what is intended to be" and which turned to be a situational irony in the play, Oedipus the king. Blindness is not only apply to people who are blind.
3Cs (Customer) The differentiation value of 1-D Acuvue is convenience and the comfort of the product and less medical complications and hence unscheduled visitors to the opticians. Taking into consideration the past experience of the patients using VCP, the most likely potential users of 1 Day Acutuve will be current disposable lens users, However, despite the high potential the trial launch in western states has proven that the majority of patients are so-called “part-time users”, those who use both type of vision correction products (VCP): spectacles and lenses, with the average use of contact lenses being 4.4 days a week. Therefore the the primary market segment for 1-D Acuvue should be the the part-time contact lens wearer (~4 million
The report further argued that the disability prevalence is higher for developing countries with about one-fifth of the estimated global total experiencing significant disabilities (6). In South Africa disability is concern and most disabled people face major physical and attitudinal barriers in their communities. Prevalence estimates disabled persons vary considerable between and within nations, and in many countries data on disabled children is lacking especially in low income countries (7). In South Africa the National Disability prevalence is estimated at 7, 5%, and disability is more prevalent amongst the elderly and females as compared to male counterparts (8, 3% and 6, 5% respectively). The prevalence of specific type of disability shows that 11% of persons aged five years and older had seeing difficulties, 4,2% had cognitive difficulties, 3,6% had hearing difficulties, and about 2% had communication, self-care and walking
The traditional Chinese cultures have a development process for thousand years, now we are creating another kind of traditional culture especially under the wave of globalization. Although the form of expressing or performing the culture experienced some changes but the basic idea and belief behind rarely changed. To promote Chinese culture we would refer to the essence of Chinese wisdom so the following is actual practicing of different dimensions of Chinese traditions which show the beauty of China. The family concept is the essence of Chinese culture.
India is able to obtain the competitive advantage over other countries because of the well-trained medical professionals and their dedicated services. The cost of offering health care services is very less when compared to the other Asian countries. The cost incurred for surgery in India is one-tenth when compared to United States or other Western