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Collaboration of health and education sectors drives equity for children with complex disabilities in China
Medical professionals often find it challenging to assess children having both complex disabilities and visual impairment, which may lead to excluding such children from educational programs and limiting their full participation in family and community activities. Identification and assessment of th...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10661929/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38026362 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1292491 |
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author | Jacobs, Lisa Gleason, Deborah Gissara, Daniela Congdon, Nathan Smith, George Xu, Peter |
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description | Medical professionals often find it challenging to assess children having both complex disabilities and visual impairment, which may lead to excluding such children from educational programs and limiting their full participation in family and community activities. Identification and assessment of these children are essential to close this exclusion gap. A five-year project in Shanxi province, China, provided comprehensive training to eye health providers and educators as they learned to assess, identify, refer and serve children with visual impairments, both with and without complex disabilities. A team of teachers, vision and general healthcare providers worked to assess the vision of these children at schools, residential settings, and in homes throughout Shanxi. The project led to deep collaboration between Shanxi’s health and education sectors, and established replicable precedents for policy and system changes toward the inclusion of children with complex disabilities and visual impairment. |
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spelling | pubmed-106619292023-11-07 Collaboration of health and education sectors drives equity for children with complex disabilities in China Jacobs, Lisa Gleason, Deborah Gissara, Daniela Congdon, Nathan Smith, George Xu, Peter Front Public Health Public Health Medical professionals often find it challenging to assess children having both complex disabilities and visual impairment, which may lead to excluding such children from educational programs and limiting their full participation in family and community activities. Identification and assessment of these children are essential to close this exclusion gap. A five-year project in Shanxi province, China, provided comprehensive training to eye health providers and educators as they learned to assess, identify, refer and serve children with visual impairments, both with and without complex disabilities. A team of teachers, vision and general healthcare providers worked to assess the vision of these children at schools, residential settings, and in homes throughout Shanxi. The project led to deep collaboration between Shanxi’s health and education sectors, and established replicable precedents for policy and system changes toward the inclusion of children with complex disabilities and visual impairment. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-11-07 /pmc/articles/PMC10661929/ /pubmed/38026362 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1292491 Text en Copyright © 2023 Jacobs, Gleason, Gissara, Congdon, Smith and Xu. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Public Health Jacobs, Lisa Gleason, Deborah Gissara, Daniela Congdon, Nathan Smith, George Xu, Peter Collaboration of health and education sectors drives equity for children with complex disabilities in China |
title | Collaboration of health and education sectors drives equity for children with complex disabilities in China |
title_full | Collaboration of health and education sectors drives equity for children with complex disabilities in China |
title_fullStr | Collaboration of health and education sectors drives equity for children with complex disabilities in China |
title_full_unstemmed | Collaboration of health and education sectors drives equity for children with complex disabilities in China |
title_short | Collaboration of health and education sectors drives equity for children with complex disabilities in China |
title_sort | collaboration of health and education sectors drives equity for children with complex disabilities in china |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10661929/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38026362 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1292491 |
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