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National health and optometry--a survey of public attitudes.

A stratified probability sample of the Houston, Texas population was interviewed to assess public opinion of national health care and public awareness of vision care and its role in a national health care system. Over 80% of the population surveyed are in favor of a national health care bill, with a large percentage of the population favoring inclusion of vision care. Demographic trends are reported as they relate to various questions in the survey, and comparisons are made to a similar questionnaire one year earlier.

Attitude to Health

Primary health care - the role of optometry.

Optometrists, like all health care providers, should emphasize primary or preventive care. To provide this care optometrists must be aware of the risk factors for major causes of mortality. As an example, the risk profile for a white male age 45 to 49 years is given and discussed. Suggestions for primary vision care and detection of major risk factors by optometrists are also presented.

Forecasting

Applications of catastrophe theory to optometry.

Catastrophe theory, a recently developed area of mathematics, is used to model two aspects of visual behavior. Visual behavior measured in a patient undergoing phorometry and the visual behavior of some patients with anomalous retinal correspondence undergoing the Walraven technique are characterized as catastrophes.

Humans

How to write an abstract of a paper or a report to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Optometry.

Although the General Papers Program (held on Saturday, Monday and Tuesday afternoons at the Annual Meeting of the Academy) has expanded to a format in which 20-minute papers and 10-minute reports are presented simultaneously in 4 or 5 rooms the committee continues to receive abstracts for approximately 25 percent more papers and reports than the program can accommodate. The committee's task of selecting papers and reports is complicated by the failure of many writers of abstracts to include sufficient and pertinent information in their abstracts. This presentation lists the essential elements of an acceptable abstract, and tabulates the reasons for non-acceptance of abstracts.

Abstracting and Indexing

Optometry and optometric practices in Nigeria.

This paper describes the number, distribution, and characteristics of optometric practices in Nigeria and compares them to similar data in the U.S.A. The results indicate more similarities than differences--the latter attributable to the difference in the age of the profession in the two countries.

Adult