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Notice to Readers: Healthy Vision Month --- May 2008
May is Healthy Vision Month. The focus of this year's observance is raising awareness of sport-related eye injuries
in children and the importance of using protective eyewear. Approximately 100,000 of the eye injuries that occur each
year in the United States are sports related
(1). Children aged <15 years account for nearly one third of all
hospital admissions for eye trauma and 43% of all sports and recreational eye injuries
(2). Proper use of protective eyewear could prevent most of these injuries
(3).
Healthy People 2010 objectives include increasing the use of protective eyewear among children participating
in recreational activities and hazardous home situations (e.g., cooking and yard work) (objective 28-9). Additional
information to assist children, parents, coaches, and communities in
reducing sport-related eye injuries is available from
the National Eye Institute's Healthy Vision Month website at
http://www.healthyvision2010.nei.nih.gov/hvm.
Information regarding the Vision Health Initiative at CDC is available at
http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/projects/vision.htm.
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2000;83:45--51.
American Academy of Pediatrics, Committee on Sports Medicine and Fitness, American Academy of Ophthalmology, Eye Health and
Public Information Task Force. Protective eyewear for young
athletes.Ophthalmology 2004;111:600--3.
Sastry SM, Copeland RA Jr, Mezghebe HM, Siram SM, Spencer M, Cowan CL Jr. Consumer product-related ocular
trauma.J Natl Med Assoc 1995;87:349--52.
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Streptococcus pneumoniae infection. The efficacy of MCV4 among HIV-infected children is unknown.
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