PUBLIC HEALTH AND COMMUNITY OPTOMETRY

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CUTM1804- PUBLIC HEALTH & COMMUNITY OPTOMETRY

Subject Name Code Type of course (T P PJ)

Credits-Theory+ Practice 2+1+0 3

COURSE OBJECTIVE

  • Introduction to the foundation and basic sciences of public health optometry with an emphasis on the epidemiology of vision problems especially focused on Indian scenario.

COURSE OUTCOME

At the end of the course students will be be knowledgeable in the following areas:

  1. Community based eye care in India.
  2. Prevalence of various eye diseases
  3. Developing Information Education Communication materials on eye and vision care for the benefit of the public
  4. Organize health education programmes in the community
  5. Vision screening for various eye diseases in the community and for different age groups.

MODULE-1 (6 lectures)

436 Public Health Optometry: Concepts and implementation, Stages of diseases, Dimensions, determinants and indicators of health

Module II

Levels of disease prevention and levels of health care patterns, Epidemiology of blindness – Defining blindness and visual impairment

Module III

Eye in primary health care, Contrasting between Clinical and community health programs

Module IV

Community Eye Care Programs, Community based rehabilitation programs

Module V

Nutritional Blindness with reference to Vitamin A deficiency, Vision 2020: The Right to Sight Screening for eye diseases

Module VI

National and International health agencies, NPCB, Role of an optometrist in Public Health, Organization and Management of Eye Care Programs – Service Delivery models, Health manpower and planning & Health Economics

Module VII

Evaluation and assessment of health program, Optometrist’s role in school eye health programs, Basics of Tele Optometry and its application in Public Health, Information, Education and Communication for Eye Care program

Project - Blindness NPCB Role of an optometrist in Public Health Basics of Tele Optometry and its application in Public Health

SESSION PLAN

 

Session 1

PHO concepts and implementation, stages of diseases, indicators of health

Pdf: https://sgtuniversity.ac.in/blogs/current-concept-of-public-health-optometry/

Ppt: https://www.slideshare.net/askararipra/01-public-health-optometrypptx

Ppt: https://www.slideshare.net/PriyankaChaurasia3/visual-impairment-42862795

Session 2

Levels of health care patterns, blindness, visual impairment

Ppt: https://www.slideshare.net/tusharkedar2/levels-of-health-care-ppt

Ppt: https://www.slideshare.net/drnareshgill/blindness

Ppt: https://www.slideshare.net/PriyankaChaurasia3/visual-impairment-42862795

Session 3

Community Eye Care Programs

Ppt: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233882803_Community_Eye_Health

Ppt: https://www.slideshare.net/askararipra/7community-eye-care-programmespptx

Pdf: https://www.vision2020india.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/68_jceh.pdf

Session 4

Vitamin a deficiency, vision 2020

Ppt: https://www.slideshare.net/sssihmspg/vision-2020-54296753

Pdf: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/206524/B1464.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Pdf: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/40535/92415447783_eng.pdf

Session 5

NPCB

Pdf:http://www.gmch.gov.in/sites/default/files/documents/NPCB.pdf

Ppt: https://www.slideshare.net/DocSantoshSoren/national-programme-for-control-of-blindness-80694168

Video: https://youtu.be/0z3mkxcGzeQ

SESSION 6

ROLE OF OPTOMETRIST, TELEOPTOMETRY

Ppt:https://vision-boutique.com/the-optometrists-role-in-public-health/

Ppt:https://www.slideshare.net/askararipra/01-public-health-optometrypptx

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A Avinash

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A.Avinash working as Assistant Professor, Dept of CSE, Centurion University of Technology and Management, Andhra Pradesh . Interested to work on Machine learning,Natural Language Processing,Problem Solving Methodologies , and ChatBot. Programming Skill: C Programming Data Structure Object Oriented Programming using C++ Formal Language Automata Theory Python Web Development(HTML,CSS,PHP) Database Management Systems Compilers