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      Role of Socioeconomic Status (SES) in Globe Injuries: A Review

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          Globe injury is a serious worldwide public health issue frequently leading to permanent vision impairment. The plethora of different types of globe injuries is classified into categories, including open and closed globe injuries. Globe injury occurs mainly in the workplace and at home, affecting predominantly middle-aged working men. Socioeconomic status (SES) is defined by income level, educational attainment, and employment status. Low socioeconomic status has been associated with a higher incidence of globe injury and can be utilized to identify at-risk populations. For managing open and closed globe injuries, different strategies are applied and the implementation of adequate globe injury prevention measures is needed for reducing the occurrence of globe injury. The following article aims to provide an overview of globe injury characteristics and their correlation with socioeconomic status and to highlight the significance of considering SES as a variable in globe injury prevention.

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          Measurement of socioeconomic status in health disparities research.

          Vickie L Shavers (2007)
          Socioeconomic status (SES) is frequently implicated as a contributor to the disparate health observed among racial/ ethnic minorities, women and elderly populations. Findings from studies that examine the role of SES and health disparities, however, have provided inconsistent results. This is due in part to the: 1) lack of precision and reliability of measures; 2) difficulty with the collection of individual SES data; 3) the dynamic nature of SES over a lifetime; 4) the classification of women, children, retired and unemployed persons; 5) lack of or poor correlation between individual SES measures; and 6) and inaccurate or misleading interpretation of study results. Choosing the best variable or approach for measuring SES is dependent in part on its relevance to the population and outcomes under study. Many of the commonly used compositional and contextual SES measures are limited in terms of their usefulness for examining the effect of SES on outcomes in analyses of data that include population subgroups known to experience health disparities. This article describes SES measures, strengths and limitations of specific approaches and methodological issues related to the analysis and interpretation of studies that examine SES and health disparities.
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            The global impact of eye injuries.

            B Thylefors, A Négrel (1998)
            Using data compiled from the ophthalmic literature and WHO's Blindness Data Bank, the available information on eye injuries from an epidemiological and public health perspective has been extensively reviewed. This collection of data has allowed an analysis of risk factors, incidence, prevalence, and impact of eye injuries in terms of visual outcome. However, most of the estimates are based on information from More Developed Countries (MDCs). The severity of eye injuries can be assessed through proxy indicators such as: (i) potentially blinding bilateral injuries; (ii) open-globe injuries; (iii) endophthalmitis; (iv) enucleation or (v) defined visual impairment. Major risk factors for ocular injuries include age, gender, socioeconomic status and lifestyle. The site where the injury occurs is also related to a risk situation. Available information indicates a very significant impact of eye injuries in terms of medical care, needs for vocational rehabilitation and great socioeconomic costs. The global pattern of eye injuries and their consequences emerging from the present review, undertaken for planning purposes in the WHO Programme for the Prevention of Blindness, suggests that: some 55 million eye injuries restricting activities more than one day occur each year; 750,000 cases will require hospitalization each year, including some 200,000 open-globe injuries; there are approximately 1.6 million blind from injuries, an additional 2.3 million people with bilateral low vision from this cause, and almost 19 million with unilateral blindness or low vision. Further epidemiological studies are needed to permit more accurate planning of prevention and management measures; a standardized international template for reporting on eye injuries might be useful to this effect, along the lines of the reporting occurring through the US Eye Injury Registry.
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              The Ocular Trauma Score (OTS).

              Douglas L. Mann, Robert T. Morris, C. Witherspoon … (2002)
              Only based on a standardized terminology of ocular trauma terms, and using a very large number of injuries treated by a wide variety of ophthalmologists, could a reliable method be developed so that the functional outcome of a serious eye injury can be predicted with reasonable certainty. The authors used the databases of the United States and Hungarian Eye Injury Registries and, with a grant from the National Center for Injury Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, designed such a system.
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                Journal
                Journal ID (nlm-ta): Clin Ophthalmol
                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Clin Ophthalmol
                Journal ID (publisher-id): opth
                Title: Clinical Ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.)
                Publisher: Dove
                ISSN (Print): 1177-5467
                ISSN (Electronic): 1177-5483
                Publication date (Electronic): 05 January 2022
                Publication date Collection: 2022
                Volume: 16
                Pages: 25-31
                Affiliations
                [1 ]1st Department of Ophthalmology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, “G. Gennimatas” General Hospital , Athens, Greece
                [2 ]2nd Department of Ophthalmology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, “Attikon” General Hospital , Athens, Greece
                [3 ]Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens , Athens, Greece
                Author notes
                Correspondence: Marilita M Moschos 1st Department of Ophthalmology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, “G. Gennimatas” General Hospital , Leof. Mesogeion 154, Athens, 115 27, Greece Tel +30 6944887319 Email moschosmarilita@yahoo.fr
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                Article
                Publisher ID: 317017
                DOI: 10.2147/OPTH.S317017
                PMC ID: 8749045
                PubMed ID: 35027817
                SO-VID: 617f06e8-eb43-45bb-b8f7-9324a5545e1c
                Copyright © © 2022 Kousiouris et al.
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                History
                Date received : 22 April 2021
                Date accepted : 21 December 2021
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                Figures: 0, References: 66, Pages: 7
                Categories
                Subject: Review

                ScienceOpen disciplines: Ophthalmology & Optometry
                Keywords: eye injuries,occupational injuries,social class,educational status
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                ScienceOpen disciplines: Ophthalmology & Optometry
                Keywords: eye injuries, occupational injuries, social class, educational status

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