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DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1186027
© Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York
Update: Diagnostik und Therapie von Tropenerkrankungen – Teil 1
Publication History
Publication Date:
11 September 2009 (online)
Seit
In den Entwicklungsländern leben 90 % aller Blinden. |
Der volkswirtschaftliche Schaden durch Blindheit und Sehbehinderung beträgt weltweit jährlich etwa 42 Milliarden US-Dollar [3], [4]. Durch „Vision 2020“ konnte in den letzten Jahren die Zahl der Katarakt-Operationen erhöht sowie die Ursachen von Trachom, Onchozerkose und Kinderblindheit angegangen werden. Hierdurch sollen bis zum Jahr 2020 mehr als 50 Millionen Menschen vor Blindheit bewahrt und mehr als 100 Milliarden US-Dollar an krankheitsassoziierten Kosten eingespart werden. Die Wiederherstellung der Sehfähigkeit und die Prävention der Blindheit gehören somit zu den kosteneffizientesten Interventionen in der Medizin.
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Dr. Martin M. Nentwich
Augenklinik der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
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