"Play Hard. Don't Blink. is funded through the Ohio Department of Health Save Our Sight Program. The Save Our Sight Program was created to ensure that children in Ohio have good vision and healthy eyes. The program accomplishes this through the early identification of children with vision problems and the promotion of good eye health and safety."Advocates sports eye safety for children.
Title from title screen (viewed January 29, 2001)."To undertake a systematic review of the effectiveness of preschool vision screening. To provide evidence on which decisions about the future provision of this service can be made. To indicate areas for further research." -- from the objectives statement of the executive summary.
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"The Better Vision Institute, an advisory board comprised of ophthalmologists, optometrists and opticians, held its first-ever Vision Summit on April 3-4, 2007 in Washington, DC. The Summit focused on vision care for children."
CDC analyzed data from the 2002 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) to provide baseline data for three of the Healthy People 2010 objectives. This report summarizes these baselines.