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India to gear up to the challenge of “third epidemic” of retinopathy of prematurity in the world
Many of the causes of childhood blindness are avoidable, being either preventable or treatable. Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) remains one of the most preventable causes of childhood blindness worldwide. Currently, India is facing the third epidemic of ROP. In India, the health system involving th...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6552629/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31124480 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_700_18 |
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author | Sai Kiranmayee, P Kalluri, Viswanath |
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description | Many of the causes of childhood blindness are avoidable, being either preventable or treatable. Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) remains one of the most preventable causes of childhood blindness worldwide. Currently, India is facing the third epidemic of ROP. In India, the health system involving the mother and child health services needs to be strengthened with a policy to cover the existing inadequacies in neonatal care and implementation of program covering newborn, especially premature. The access, availability, and affordability of services related to the care of premature babies need strengthening in India. ROP-trained ophthalmologists and neonatal care pediatricians and a professional togetherness is a big issue. Inadequacies in awareness of ROP among the parents, health care workers, counsellors add up to the problem. Community-based health workers such as Accredited Social Health Activist are a good dependable force in India and are needed to be trained in awareness and establishing a proper identification for prompt referral. ROP prevention needs a multidisciplinary team approach. ROP management stands as a good example of all the strategies for prevention, which includes primary prevention (improving obstetric and neonatal care), secondary prevention (screening and treatment programs), and tertiary prevention (treating complications and rehabilitation to reduce disability). Given its demographic and cultural diversity, India faces numerous challenges, with significant rural–urban, poor–rich, gender, socioeconomic, and regional differences. So, we need to gear up to face the present challenge of the third epidemic of ROP and prevent ROP-related childhood blindness as it is the need of the hour. |
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spelling | pubmed-65526292019-06-13 India to gear up to the challenge of “third epidemic” of retinopathy of prematurity in the world Sai Kiranmayee, P Kalluri, Viswanath Indian J Ophthalmol Review Article Many of the causes of childhood blindness are avoidable, being either preventable or treatable. Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) remains one of the most preventable causes of childhood blindness worldwide. Currently, India is facing the third epidemic of ROP. In India, the health system involving the mother and child health services needs to be strengthened with a policy to cover the existing inadequacies in neonatal care and implementation of program covering newborn, especially premature. The access, availability, and affordability of services related to the care of premature babies need strengthening in India. ROP-trained ophthalmologists and neonatal care pediatricians and a professional togetherness is a big issue. Inadequacies in awareness of ROP among the parents, health care workers, counsellors add up to the problem. Community-based health workers such as Accredited Social Health Activist are a good dependable force in India and are needed to be trained in awareness and establishing a proper identification for prompt referral. ROP prevention needs a multidisciplinary team approach. ROP management stands as a good example of all the strategies for prevention, which includes primary prevention (improving obstetric and neonatal care), secondary prevention (screening and treatment programs), and tertiary prevention (treating complications and rehabilitation to reduce disability). Given its demographic and cultural diversity, India faces numerous challenges, with significant rural–urban, poor–rich, gender, socioeconomic, and regional differences. So, we need to gear up to face the present challenge of the third epidemic of ROP and prevent ROP-related childhood blindness as it is the need of the hour. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6552629/ /pubmed/31124480 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_700_18 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Indian Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Review Article Sai Kiranmayee, P Kalluri, Viswanath India to gear up to the challenge of “third epidemic” of retinopathy of prematurity in the world |
title | India to gear up to the challenge of “third epidemic” of retinopathy of prematurity in the world |
title_full | India to gear up to the challenge of “third epidemic” of retinopathy of prematurity in the world |
title_fullStr | India to gear up to the challenge of “third epidemic” of retinopathy of prematurity in the world |
title_full_unstemmed | India to gear up to the challenge of “third epidemic” of retinopathy of prematurity in the world |
title_short | India to gear up to the challenge of “third epidemic” of retinopathy of prematurity in the world |
title_sort | india to gear up to the challenge of “third epidemic” of retinopathy of prematurity in the world |
topic | Review Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6552629/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31124480 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_700_18 |
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