DEFECTOS VISUALES EN ESCOLARES MENORES DE 12 AÑOS Y ADULTOS MAYORES DE 40 AÑOS, EN LA COMUNIDAD MEJÍA DE LA PARROQUIA, PICOAZA CANTÓN PORTOVIEJO. DE FEBRERO A AGOSTO DEL 2008

Abstract

In order to know the reality of the visual health and to determine the frequency of the visual defects in a rural community, we select to the denominated place Mejía for this community work, the same one that belongs to the Parish Picoaza of the Canton Portoviejo whose population is considered in 3618 inhabitants. Of this population he/she took a sample conformed by the following programmatic groups: 128 smaller than 12 years and 198 bigger than 40 years. The methodology used for the realization of this community work you bases on the statistical-descriptive method, the same one that you development in three stages. The first one consisted on the realization of the tamizaje to detect people with a diminished Visual Sharpness. So that in the second stage to these people are carried out the refraction in which you determines the type of visual defect and lastly one carries out the correction of the visual defects with the donation of ophthalmic eyeglasses for the solution of the problem. After carrying out this field investigation he/she shows that approximately 70% of people that intervened in this investigation requires of the use of ophthalmic eyeglasses for the correction of the visual defects. Also that not only the economic factor impacts in the prevalencia of visual defects without correcting, but rather also the lack of information about the institutions of visual health, they limit the access to the visual attention.