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CHAPTER 2
DATA SUPPLEMENT
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Q1
In your country is there a:
Public-health screening programme?
None
Regional
National
Employer- based
Other
Eye screening programme?
None
Regional
National
Employer- based
Other
Parents
Who pays for eye screening?
Parents
Health Insurance
Councils
Provinces- Regions
State
employer
Companies
Charity
Other
Who does the eye screening?
Ophthal- mologist
Orthoptist
Paedia- trician
Youth health care physician
Nurse
Ophth practice assistant
Opto- metrist
Optician <10%
School physician
Other:
Coverage among eligible children?
>95%
>90%
>80%
>60%
>40%
>20%
>10%
Just starting
Other:
Parents’ secondary benefits:
Eye exam is free
Eye exam is cheap
Financial reward
During working hours
Condition for school entry
Free glasses
Obligatory
Other:
Infant eye- screening tests?
Inspection 1 week
Fixation 2 weeks
Red fundus reflex
Hirschberg 1 month
Brückner 6 weeks
Cover test
Pupillary reflexes
Motility 3 months
Other: Other:
At approx
3 weeks
2 months
10 weeks
4 months
Preverbal eye-screening tests?
Inspection 6 months
Fixation 9 months
Red fundus reflex
Brückner 15 months
Pupillary reflexes
Motility
Hirschberg 2 years
Cover test 27 months
Other: Other:
at approx
1 year
18 months
21 months
30 months
Autorefraction- photoscreening at:
6 months Inspection
9 months Fixation
1 year
15 months Brückner
18 months
21 months
2 years Hirschberg
27 months
30 months
Other: Other:
Preschool eye screening?
Red fundus reflex
Pupillary reflexes
Motility
Cover test
visual acuity measured with:
Picture chart 3 years
Lea Hyvarinen 3,5 years
HOTV 4 years
Tumbling E 4,5 years
Landolt C 5 years
Snellen 5,5 years
Also:
6 years
Stereopsis 6,5 years
Color vision
Other: Other:
at approx
7 years
Positively screened children referred to:
General practitioner
Ophthal- mologist
Orthoptist
Optician
Opto- metrist
Other:
