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EYES WIDE OPEN ON BLINDNESS
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The aim of this paper is to point out the importance of blindness in the contemporary world and its impact on individual personality. Blindness represents a hard social burden for developing countries. Beside individual distress, blindness means high financial costs for any society, and obviously these costs are even harder to bear by developing economies. Blindness knows no geographic, economic or cultural bounds. It respects neither age no gender. The number of individuals who are avoidably blind and visually disabled is increasing. Nearly 150 million people are in this category now, each one living in a private world of personal darkness. Ninety percent of those so afflicted live in developing nations. Many factors contribute to the high occurrence of eye disease and blindness in the developing world. The common denominator is poverty. Avoidable blindness and visual impairment have become in international public health problem. Keeping our eyes wide open on blindness might help us elaborate prevention programs, in order to achieve a better financial result, by a better ratio cost/effectiveness.
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