World Blindness and Its Prevention

Part 1: preventing blindness - a retrospective, Sir John Wilson (Honorary President, IAPB). Part 2: inaugural address, Third General Assembly, Prime Minister Shri Rajiv Gandhi. Part 3: a decade of progress in the prevention of blindness, Carl Kupfer. Part 4 Four main causes of blindness: trachoma, Bjorn Thylefors (Programme Manager, Prevention of Blindness, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland), Chandler R. Dawson (Director, Francis I, Proctor Foundation for Research in Ophthalmology, University of California, San Francisco, USA); xerophthalmia, Barbara A. Underwood; onchocerciasis, Hugh R. Taylor; cataract, Carl Kupfer. Part 5 Regional action: Africa; Eastern Europe; Latin America; Middle East; North America; South Asia; South-East Asia; Western Pacific. Part 6: operations research in cataract blindness prevention, Leon B. Ellwein (Professor and Associate Dean, University of Nebraska Medical Centre, Nebraska, USA), Carl Kupfer. Part 7: mobilizing resources and political will - convincing governments that prevention of blindness is cost-effective, Michael F. Drummond (Director, Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham). Part 8 IAPB-sponsored workshops at the Third General Assembly: guidelines for the training of paramedical cataract surgeons, Randolph Whitfield, Jr (Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind and Operation Eyesight Universal, Mt Kenya Estates, Nyeri, Kenya); strategies to reduce the backlog of cataract blind in Africa, Randolph Whitfield, Jr; multi-disciplinary approaches to children and corneal diseases, Barbara A. Underwood; prevention and rehabilitation - their complementary relationship in national programmes, Sally Deitz, Eva Friedlander. Part 9 Recommendations of the executive board accepted by the General Assembly: regions, regional chairmen, budgets and membership; cataract backlog. Part 10 International non-governmental organizations: communications between non-governmental organizations and the World Health Organization, Bjorn Thylefors; reports of the non-governmental organizations - Christoffel Blindenmission, Foresight, Helen Keller International, International Eye Foundation, Operation Eyesight Universal, Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind, Seva Foundation, World Blind Union. Appendices: 1 - WHO regional offices, collaborating centres for the prevention of blindness and member nations by region; 2 - IAPB officers, regional co-chairmen and executive board members, 1986-90; 3 - constitution of the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness; 4 - proposal for cataract-free zones in Latin America, 8 May 1986; 5 - report of the WHO interregional meeting on the management of cataract within primary health care systems, Denpasar, Indonesia 15-19 December 1986. Index.