What are the course requirements?
There are no specific course requirements, other than a curious disposition and interest in the subject.
Why join the course?
Learn how diabetes causes diabetic retinopathy and vision loss, and how you can prevent or reduce the risk of vision loss. About 8.5% of the global population is living with diabetes, and there is growing awareness of diabetes-related blindness. This course will introduce you to the control of diabetic retinopathy – exploring concepts relevant to the disease, the patient, the health care provider and the health system.
About OE4BW
The open education online mentoring program for a better world (OE4BW) is a program organized by the University of Nova Gorica (UNG) and UNESCO Chair on Open Technologies for OER and Open Learning at the Jožef Stefan Institute (JSI). It supports the development and implementation of freely accessible modules and resources for online education on topics with social impact according to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Further details are available at https://unesco.ijs.si/
Who has developed the course?
This course was developed by Nyawira Mwangi under the OE4BW
program, https://unesco.ijs.si/project/control-of-diabetic-retinopathy/
with support from mentors and a larger team of experts who are listed elsewhere in the course
OE4BW mentors
Sally Parsley https://www.linkedin.com/in/sally-parsley-6421971/
Deon Minnies https://www.linkedin.com/in/deon-minnies-96452529/
Prof Allen Foster and Dr Covadonga Bascaran have provided oversight.
About the educator
Dr Nyawira Mwangi |Educator at Kenya Medical Training College | Educator on Diabetic Eye Disease course on FutureLearn (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | Public eye health specialist | Passionate for strengthening heath systems for Diabetic Retinopathy | Researcher at the International Centre for Eye Health
My research focuses on the factors associated with weak and strong health systems for diabetes and diabetic retinopathy, as well as the ways in which demand-side and supply-side interventions can increase access to DR services. I am particularly interested in health system strengthening, such as development and implementation of clinical guidelines for DR. https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/mwangi.nyawira https://www.linkedin.com/today/author/drnyawiramwangi
Disclaimer
The course content does not constitute specific medical advice for patients and does not replace consultation with your doctor.
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Control of Diabetic Retinopathy 