title: The Portable Eye Examination Kit: Mobile phones can screen for eye disease in low-resource settings.
abstract: In 2010, the World Health Organization estimated that 285 million people exhibit some form of vision impairment. Of these, almost 40 million people are functionally blind [1]. Yet, 80% of blindness could either be treated or avoided at the point of onset.
authors.forename: Mario
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ettore Giardini
mesh_terms: D040421:Cell Phone; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014787:Vision Tests / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods