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Any info abt the study carried out in Pakistan reagrding vision in children?
Assalam o alaykum,
Actually i want to know about any research carried out anywhere in Pakistan to check the Vision in primary school children or if any statistics related to it.Anyone of you knowing if there is any research done to check Vision in children or wat percent of children have poor vision in Pakistan,if some research work is done even in local areas let me know. i hope you get wat i mean and also wat kind of dieseases are common in children here in Pakistan, actually i have no idea where to start, i would really like it if any one of you would guide me
if the research if reffered in any journal let me know, however i'll check the journals here on pakmedinet
PS: please be quick to respond i m starting my project n i really need help n if my posts confuses me just let me knw wat u get frm it mayb i'll try to explain.
Wassalam
Posted by: doc11 Posts: 44 :: 10-12-2005 :: | Reply to this Message
Re: Any info abt the study carried out in Pakistan reagrding vision in children?
You may want to see these papers
1: Bourne R, Dineen B, Jadoon Z, Lee PS, Khan A, Johnson GJ, Foster A, Khan D; Pakistan National Eye Survey Study Group. The Pakistan national blindness and visual impairment survey--research design, eye examination methodology and results of the pilot study. Ophthalmic Epidemiol. 2005 Oct;12(5):321-33.
2: Shah M, Khan MT, Khan MD, Habib ur Rehman. Clinical profile of amblyopia in Pakistani children age 3 to 14 years. J Coll Physicians Surg Pak. 2005 Jun;15 (6):353-7.
3: Shaikh SP, Aziz TM. Pattern of eye diseases in children of 5-15 years at Bazzertaline Area (South Karachi) Pakistan. J Coll Physicians Surg Pak. 2005 May;15 (5):291-4.
Posted by: rqayyum Posts: 199 :: 10-12-2005 :: | Reply to this Message
Re: Any info abt the study carried out in Pakistan reagrding vision in children?
doc11, have a look at this article:
http://www.pakmedinet.com/view.php?id=2698
i hope this would help you.
Posted by: docosama Posts: 333 :: 10-12-2005 :: | Reply to this Message
Re: Re: Any info abt the study carried out in Pakistan reagrding vision in children?
thanks a lot rqayyum and oncoman that really helped 
Allah reward you fr that
you guys knw of any site that would cover everythng goin on about visual problems in Pakistan?
oncoman i think ur the one incharge here so i had a question, when i get these articles thrs a checkbox with them, wat does that mean?actually i want to mark some articles is thr any specific way? i thought the checkbox had smthng to do with it
anyhow thnkx fr the articles
Wassalam
Posted by: doc11 Posts: 44 :: 11-12-2005 :: | Reply to this Message
Re: Any info abt the study carried out in Pakistan reagrding vision in children?
you can select more than 1 checkboxes to select the articles and then click print to make them in a printable mode.
I dont know any website which covers "everything" about the eye diseases of Pakistan.
btw im not oncoman
Posted by: docosama Posts: 333 :: 11-12-2005 :: | Reply to this Message
Re: Any info abt the study carried out in Pakistan reagrding vision in children?oh......sorry docosama ,dunno hw i wrote that, infact thr is a member named oncoman , i tuk him as the mod n strangky enuff i didnt bother to c ur name
Posted by: doc11 Posts: 44 :: 30-12-2005 :: | Reply to this Message