Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: Visual impairment and blindness, are the first or second type of human diisabilities with greatest prevalence and are currently defined by five categories of visual impairment. The change to the term low vision, allows to consider refractive errors as fundamental causes of visual impairment, extending the spectrum of etiological diagnosis. Modern epidemiological changes have altered the etiology of visual impairment, and explain why adult onset visual impairment and blindness is usually acquired, noninfectious, progressive and accompanied by various risk factors and systemic diseases, capable to generate multiple disabilities and/or concomitant eye defects. Adequate knowledge of the epidemiology and etiology is the first step to implement a good clinical management, oriented to activities for prevention, promotion, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of visual impairment and blindness through different health professionals.
Author: Juan Camilo Suárez-Escudero
Institution: Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Ophthalmology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1528643198