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Control of Diabetic Retinopathy

Learn about preventing vision loss from diabetes

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Who provides services for the patient with DR?

Module 1: Understanding the disease

Introducing the disease
Purpose and Learning outcomes
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1.1 What is diabetic retinopathy?
1.2 Why does this course focus on control of DR?
1.3 Epidemiology of diabetic retinopathy
1.4 Risk factors for diabetic retinopathy
1.5 Trajectory of diabetic retinopathy and focusing care
1.6 Assessing the need for diabetic retinopathy services in your setting
1.7 Staging of DR
1.8 Screening for DR
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Module 2: Understanding the patient

Who is the patient with DR?
Purpose and learning outcomes
Living with diabetes and diabetic retinopathy
2.1 How does visual impairment affect the patient with DR?
2.2 Where can you find the patient with DR?
2.3 A patient’s journey
2.4 Empowering the patients
2.5 Delivering person-centred care
2.6 Peer support
2.7 Encouraging adoption and maintenance of healthy behaviours
2.8 Patient-related barriers to screening
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Module 3: Understanding the health care provider

Introducing the health workforce for diabetes and diabetic retinopathy
Purpose and learning outcomes
Who provides services for the patient with DR?
3.1 Providing care within a multidisciplinary team
3.2 The health provider-patient interaction
3.3 Medical history for evaluation of DR
3.4 Ocular examination for evaluation of DR
3.5 Interventions to prevent blindness from DR
3.6 Health talks on DR
3.7 Provider related determinants of DR screening behaviour
3.8 Test your knowledge on diabetic eye disease
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Module 4: Understanding the health system

Are health systems ready to respond to the challenge of diabetes and diabetic retinopathy?
Purpose and learning outcomes
What are the gaps in the health system response to diabetes and DR?
4.1 Universal Eye Health: can diabetes eye services be a driver for increasing uptake of eye care services in the general population?
4.2 Integrating diabetes and eye care
4.3 What is a health system for diabetes and diabetic retinopathy?
4.4 How to start a DR screening program
4.5 Running a mobile outreach DR service
4.6 Keeping the patient and community at the centre of the health system
4.7 Reflection point
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