摘要
It is now generally accepted that several locations in East and Southeast Asia,specifically the Republic of Korea,Japan,Singapore,China's Mainland,Hong Kong and Taiwan,have a high prevalence of myopia and potentially pathological high myopia(1-3).In fact,around 70-90%of students completing secondary schooling in these locations are now myopic(4-11),requiring some form of correction for good distance viewing.In many places,over half of the students are myopic and need correction by the end of primary school.In most of these locations,there has been a progressive development of education systems since the end of the Second World War,resulting in highly competitive systems,which produce educational outcomes that top the world in international surveys such as PISA and TIMSS(12).The data which illustrate these trends were published in recent review(2)and used as a figure in an influential news report in Nature on The Myopia Boom(1).
