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UCSD EyeMobile for Children: Model Vision Screening Program

142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 15 - November 19, 2014): http://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
Monday, November 17, 2014

Stuart Brown, MD , ophthalmology, UCSD Shiley Eye Center, la jolla, CA
Iliana Molina, MBA , UCSD EyeMobile for Children, La Jolla, CA
Define: The UCSD EyeMobile program is a model program that has been adopted by UCLA, UCI and Prevent Blindness Northern California (UCSF).  Ensuring preschool children have the vision they need to succeed in school and in life, the cost effective model uses a screening, exam, provision of glasses and intense follow up model to ensure no child is left untreated.

Outcomes: A total of 15,000 preschool children per year have been screened, 2000 have received full dilated eye exams and over 1300 have been prescribed glasses.

Learning Areas:

Planning of health education strategies, interventions, and programs

Learning Objectives:
Describe the UCSD EyeMobile program as a model program that has been adopted by UCLA, UCI and Prevent Blindness Northern California (UCSF).

Keyword(s): Vision Care, Child Health Promotion

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have been part of the UCSD EyeMobile program for the last 12 years and have been Director since 2010.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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