La Organización Mundial de la Salud indica que cada día alrededor de 3500 personas fallecen en las carreteras. Diversos países del mundo han reconocido la importancia de que las evaluaciones ópticas y oftalmológicas sean parte de un programa de la salud pública toda vez que el apoyo a estas políticas públicas puede garantizar una conducción segura libre de riesgo y paralelamente ofrece a estos una detección precoz y oportuna ante enfermedades oftalmológicas. El Objetivo fue conocer la prevalencia de discromatopsia en los postulantes de examen médico para licencias de conducir en el Policlínico Señor de los Milagros S.R.L. Lima Perú 2016, estudio de tipo cuantitativo, analítico de corte transversal. Se estudiaron 320 postulantes para examen médico, se utilizó el tipo de muestreo probabilístico simple El examen oftalmológico incluyó la evaluación de agudeza visual de ...

Background: There are almost 12 million children in Peru, and no studies regarding the prevalence of ametropia or amblyopia in school children have ever been reported.Objetives: To determine the epidemiologic characteristics and current therapy strategies for severe ametropia and amblyopia in students from limited-resource families in Southern Lima, Peru.Material and methods: A significant sample representative of 120,000 children from 42 schools in five districts of Southern Lima was assessed. The study was performed in three stages. The first one was a cross-sectional and observational survey, assessing visual acuity and performing refraction testing in 12,364 students. The second stage consisted in follow-up assessments in students with moderate and severe ametropy, aiming to confirm their ametropy degree and its respective cyclopegic refraction. The third stage detecte...

Background: There are almost 12 million children in Peru, and no studies regarding the prevalence of ametropia or amblyopia in school children have ever been reported.Objetives: To determine the epidemiologic characteristics and current therapy strategies for severe ametropia and amblyopia in students from limited-resource families in Southern Lima, Peru.Material and methods: A significant sample representative of 120,000 children from 42 schools in five districts of Southern Lima was assessed. The study was performed in three stages. The first one was a cross-sectional and observational survey, assessing visual acuity and performing refraction testing in 12,364 students. The second stage consisted in follow-up assessments in students with moderate and severe ametropy, aiming to confirm their ametropy degree and its respective cyclopegic refraction. The third stage detecte...