As a part of their medium-term strategic plan the World Health Organization is calling for low-cost interventions that can help bolster the world’s economies. Such interventions include the distribution of vision corrective glasses to those who live in poverty. Studies have shown that blindness can contribute to poverty and those who are visually impaired have an increased risk of falling into lower socioeconomic classes and have higher rates of unemployment.
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Tags: economy, glasses, poverty, spectacles, visual impairment, WHO, world health organization
Dr. Steven Chang, the author of DailyDose, is a staff physician with Kosmix RightHealth. Dr. Chang practices Family Medicine at the University of California Davis Medical Center, where his medical interests include both pediatric and geriatric care, public health, gay and lesbian health, and sleep medicine. Dr. Chang trained at the Stanford University affiliated O'Connor Hospital, and was a research fellow at the National Institute of Health. He holds an M.D. from McGill University and a BA in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University.
June 9th, 2009 at 1:18 am
good and humane idea. good luck
June 9th, 2009 at 8:45 am
I think that I have a good understanding of what it requires to get and keep a job. My opinion of people who prey on and show off a pair of high class glasses and work on computers all day because they can afford new glasses to work on there computers; but becauswe I cannot not afford new glasses I was put in a clerical positon not fair!