title: The Tokyo Metropolitan Home Vision Screening Program for amblyopia in 3-year-old children.
abstract: In August 1989, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government officially began a vision screening program for children aged 3 years 1 month. A 1988 pilot study of 1,303 children this age disclosed five cases (0.38%) of amblyopia. The home vision test, which uses picture cards of familiar figures, proved to be an efficient and inexpensive method of screening when incorporated into the existing health-check program for 3-year-old children. In the initial eight months of the program, 21,906 children were screened. Of these, 419 children (1.9%) were referred to an ophthalmologist for follow-up, and amblyopia was detected in 41 children (0.19%).
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Juntendo University, School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yazawa
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Suga
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wakita
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sumitomo
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Uemura
mesh_terms: D000550:Amblyopia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000517:prevention & control; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D014041:Tokyo; D015351:Vision Screening; D014787:Vision Tests; D014792:Visual Acuity