title: [Communication towards "lay people" and glaucoma].
abstract: Glaucoma is particularly frequent and increase with age. Its silent evolution and worsening lead to a delayed diagnosis, until non reversible visual field impairment occurs. Early diagnosis and management, would permit to prevent glaucoma progression and, likely, to reduce the high direct cost of the disease and to preserve patient's quality of life. Furthermore, society changes as well as the weight given to patients' associations, result in an increasing demand for information on the disease, its treatment and on therapeutic education. Physician's specialized scientific Association should play a crucial role in communication towards patients and general population, as already implemented, through several actions since 2004, by the French scientific Societies: Comité de Lutte contre le Glaucome (CLG) and Société Française d'Ophtalmologie (SFO).
authors.affiliation: Clinique ophtalmologique, Hôpital du Val de Grâce, 74, boulevard de Port-Royal, F-75230 Paris cedex 05, France. pr_renard@yahoo.fr
authors.forename: J-P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Renard
mesh_terms: D005901:Glaucoma / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006266:Health Education; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans