Suggested Reading for FVI Exam
VOSH/INTERNATIONAL GUIDELINES FOR VISITING VOSH OPTOMETRIC TEAMS TO DEVELOPING WORLD COUNTRIES
Bringing The World Into Focus: The Story of VOSH (Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity), Michel Listenberger, OD, FVI (2017)
World Report On Vision, Issued by the World Health Organization, October 2019
Vision Impairment and Blindness, World Health Organization Fact Sheet, Updated October 2023
WHO SPECS 2030. World Health Organization
The Rationale for Shifting From A Voluntary Clinical Approach To A Public health Approach In Addressing Refractive Errors, Vincent, Pearce, Leasher, Mlandenovich, Patel (2007)
Global Patterns in Health Burden of Uncorrected Refractive Error, Lixia Lou; Chunlei Yao; Yanhua Jin; Victor Perez; Juan Ye Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science November 2016, Vol.57, 6271-6277(2016)
Global Prevalence of Presbyopia and Vision Impairment from Uncorrected Presbyopia: Systematic Review, Meta-analysis, and Modelling, Timothy R Fricke, Nina Tahhan, Serge Resnikoff, Eric Papas, Anthea Burnett, Suit May Ho, Thomas Naduvilath, Kovin S Naidoo,Smith, Frick, Naido (2018)
Global estimates on the number of people blind or visually impaired by Uncorrected Refractive Error: a meta-analysis from 2000 to 2020 . Vision Loss Expert Group of the Global Burden of Disease Study & the GBD 2019 Blindness and Vision Impairment Collaborators
2030 In Sight: the future of global eye health, Jude Stern, Sumrana Yasmin, M. Babar Qureshi & Rupert Bourne.
Prevalence of Visual Impairment in El Salvador: Inequalities in Educational Level and Occupational Status, Rius A, Guisasola L, Sabidó M, Leasher JL, Moriña D, Villalobos A, et al. Rev Panam Salud Publica. 2014;36(5):290–9.
Correction of Refractive Error and Presbyopia in Timor-Leste. J Ramke, R du Toit, A Palagyi, G Brian, T Naduvilath
Uncorrected Refractive Error and Presbyopia Accommodating The Unmet Need, Rupert R A Bourne(2007)
The Development of a Public Optometry System in Mozambique, A Cost Benefit Analysis. Stephen Thompson, Kovin Naidoo, Geoff Harris, Luigi Bilotto, Jorge Ferrão and James Loughman (2014)
25 Questions and Answers on Health and Human Rights, World Health Organization (2002)
Barriers to use of refractive services in Mozambique, Stephen Thompson, Kovin Naidoo, Geoff Harris, Luigi Bilotto, Jorge Ferrão and James Loughman(2015)
Use of ready-made spectacles to meet visual needs in a low-resource adult population, Larry Allen Hookway, Patti Fuhr, Marcela Frazier (2013)
Presbyopia: addressing an urgent global need, Munis P, Kassalow J, Lorey M (2024)
Global uncorrected refractive error and presbyopia: the size of the problem, Bastawrous A, Kassalow J, Watts E (2024)
Vision Atlas Evidence Series: Causes of Vision Loss, IAPB
Glasses For All: Improving Supply to the Poorest, IAPB
Position Paper on Recycled Spectacles, IAPB
World Sight Day, IAPB
