* 你知道嗎?
Do you know?

* 世界上大約有2億8千5百萬人需要每天與低視力或盲共存!
Approximately 285 million people worldwide live with low vision and blindness

* 在這些人之中,有3千9百萬人是全盲。而2億4千6百萬人仍然是有一些剩餘視力的中度或重度視覺障礙。
Of these, 39 million people are blind and 246 million have moderate or severe visual impairment

* 而百分之90的盲人都住在低收入的國家中。
90% of blind people live in low-income countries

* 但是,百分之80的視力障礙是可以被治療或預防的。
Yet 80% o⋯⋯f visual impairment is avoidable - i.e. readily treatable and/or preventable

* 因此,視覺復健或重建,防盲的工作是健保𥚃內最具投資收益的一項工作。
Restorations of sight, and blindness prevention strategies are among the most cost-effective interventions in health care

* 在過去的20年,因為眼睛感染而失明的人已經大幅的降低。
The number of people blind from infectious causes has greatly reduced in the past 20 years

* 約1千9百萬的兒童有視覺障礙。
An estimated 19 million children are visually impaired

* 大約百分之65具有視覺障礙的人為65歳以上,但是這年齡族群的人卻佔世界總人口的百分之20!
About 65 % of all people who are visually impaired are aged 50 and older, while this age group comprises only 20% of the world's population

* 在很多國家,老年族群正在快速的成長之中,這代表未來有更多的人可能會患有老年性視覺障礙也會出現快速的成長。
Increasing elderly populations in many countries mean that more people will be at risk of age-related visual impairment.

以上資料來自:International Association of Preventible Blindness 2014
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