The article represents the glaucoma disability rates in Ukraine and touches upon medical and social aspects of the problem We have screened a data from source medical documents and analyzed the MSEK (Physical Disabil...The article represents the glaucoma disability rates in Ukraine and touches upon medical and social aspects of the problem We have screened a data from source medical documents and analyzed the MSEK (Physical Disability Board of Review) statistical reporting data, further used as a basis for calculation of live indices of general and primary disabilities caused by eye diseases, including the ones caused by primary open-angle glaucoma (7.05% and 9.99%, respectively), the extensive distribution indices of disability by gender (75.74% male), age (59.29% of II maturity patients), and a disability group (56% of patients recognized disabled persons of groups I and II). Our findings indicate a lack of modern science-based approaches to diagnosis, rehabilitation, and socio-medical examination of patients with ophthalmologic pathologies, thus requiring deeper study of this problem.展开更多
文摘The article represents the glaucoma disability rates in Ukraine and touches upon medical and social aspects of the problem We have screened a data from source medical documents and analyzed the MSEK (Physical Disability Board of Review) statistical reporting data, further used as a basis for calculation of live indices of general and primary disabilities caused by eye diseases, including the ones caused by primary open-angle glaucoma (7.05% and 9.99%, respectively), the extensive distribution indices of disability by gender (75.74% male), age (59.29% of II maturity patients), and a disability group (56% of patients recognized disabled persons of groups I and II). Our findings indicate a lack of modern science-based approaches to diagnosis, rehabilitation, and socio-medical examination of patients with ophthalmologic pathologies, thus requiring deeper study of this problem.