Eradicating Blindness Global Health Innovation from South Asia
This book describes community ophthalmology professionals in South Asia who demonstrate social entrepreneurship in global health to help the rural poor. Their innovations contested economic and scientific norms, and spread from India and Nepal outwards to
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Eradicating Blindness
Logan D. A. Williams
Eradicating Blindness Global Health Innovation from South Asia
Logan D. A. Williams Logan Williams Consultancy Services, LLC Cumberland, MD, USA
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Preface
In 2006, I discovered that my mother had early-stage cataracts in both eyes. At that time, we both lived in Boulder, Colorado, where I was a graduate research assistant in the Cardiovascular Dynamics and Ultrasound Laboratory. I decided that cataract disease (and the knowledges and technologies used to address it around the world) warranted closer scrutiny. In addition to my main research project on cardiovascular ultrasound, I completed a small secondary project at CU-Boulder on the bio-mechanics of porcine natural lenses. I also performed background research in February 2007 on the nature of cataract disease and was surprised by the great number of people it affects around the world. As part of this preliminary research, I checked out the World Health Organization’s information about cataracts. On their website, they had a map that showed cataract surgical rates (or how many cataract surgeries per capita) for each country in the world in 2004. The fact that the USA, Western Europe, and Australia had high cataract surgical rates was not a surprise. What was confounding (to me) about this map was
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