ABSTRACT
Ophthalmic Epidemiology: Current Concepts to Digital Strategies provides a comprehensive guide to graduate students, ophthalmologists, and researchers in ophthalmic epidemiology. It covers recently developed new methodologies, technologies and resources in ocular epidemiological research, such as telemedicine, disease registries, EMR, bio-banks and omics. This book also summarizes recent epidemiological findings and provides up-to-date data on ocular diseases. Furthermore, it introduces and discusses the uses of epidemiology in the evaluation of health services and population screening programs and reviews the application of epidemiology in intervention trials in the communities.
Key Features
- Comprehensive guide to the epidemiology of common eye diseases.
- Provides updates on the prevalence and risk factors of eye diseases.
- Outlines how epidemiological techniques can be utilized to evaluate ophthalmic health services and programs.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART 1: Current and Future Epidemiological Approaches to Ophthalmology
Chapter 1. Use of Electronic Health Records, Disease Registries, and Health Insurance Databases in Ophthalmology
Chapter 2. Application of Mobile and Wearable Technology in Data collection for Ophthalmology
Chapter 3. Telemedicine in Ophthalmology
Chapter 4. Biochemical Markers in Ophthalmology
Chapter 5. Statistical Methods for Big Data
Chapter 6. Common Statistical Issues in Ophthalmic Research
PART 2: Updates on Epidemiology of Eye Diseases
Chapter 7. Refractive Errors, Myopia and Presbyopia
Chapter 8. Corneal Disorders
Chapter 9. Dry Eye Disease
Chapter 10. Cataract and Cataract Surgical Coverage
Chapter 11. Glaucoma
Chapter 12. Age-related Macular Degeneration
Chapter 13. Polypoidal Choroidal Vasculopathy
Chapter 14. Diabetic Retinopathy
Chapter 15. Non-DR Retinal Vascular Disease
Chapter 16. Uveitis
Chapter 17. Ocular Tumors
PART 3: Epidemiological Methods for Evaluation and Intervention
Chapter 18. Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Chapter 19. Assessment of Vision-Related Quality of Life
Chapter 20. Screening Programs
Chapter 21. Community Intervention Trials in Eye Health
