World Blindness and Its Prevention

By John E. Wilson

This book describes the development of the global strategy for the prevention of blindness, which is now one of the priorities of the World Health Organization, outlines the progress of regional and national programmes, reviews the state of the art in the control of various eye diseases, and the progress of a number ofmodel projects and describes means which are being used in various countries to generate public interest in the problem and to mobilize resources.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192614800
• ISBN13: 9780192614803
• Release Date: September 1984
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 148 Pages