Diabetic Eye Disease: Building Capacity To Prevent Blindness
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Course overview
- Provider
- Futurelearn
- Course type
- Free trial availiable
- Deadline
- Flexible
- Duration
- 4 hours
- Course author
- Dr Daksha Patel ( Lead Educator)
Description
Understand the diabetes challenge and how health professionals can work with people with diabetes to prevent blindness.
Gain practical knowledge to reduce risk of vision loss from diabetic eye disease
The number of adults with diabetes is predicted to increase by more than 50% to 642 million by 2040. Diabetic eye disease is a range of ocular complications experienced by people with diabetes. Recent global trends have found an alarming increase in the magnitude of vision loss due to diabetic retinopathy, highlighting the need to strengthen health services to prevent blindness.
Through this online course you will learn the key facts about diabetic eye disease and its management, and how health teams and people with diabetes can work together to reduce the risk of vision loss and blindness.
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