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CISDOC database
Document ID (ISN) | 78011 |
CIS number |
02-87 |
Year |
2000 |
Convention or series no. |
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Author(s) |
Carmona R.E. |
Title |
Visual acuity manual |
Original title |
Manual de salud visual [in Spanish] |
Bibliographic information |
Instituto Nacional de Seguros, Departamento de gestión empresarial en salud ocupacional, San José, Costa Rica, 2000. 23p. Illus. |
Abstract |
This training booklet presents a few basic principles of eye physiology, vision problems and risks to vision. Contents: vision system; field of vision; visual ergonomics and positioning of signalling elements; refractive anomalies (myopia; hypermetropia, astigmatism, presbyopia, anisometropia); most common disorders (styes, chalazion, glaucoma, keratoconus, foreign bodies, visual acuity); symptoms requiring medical attention; measures to be taken in cases of injury (foreign bodies, chemicals, burns due to heat, strikes by objects). |
Descriptors (primary) |
Costa Rica; eyes; training material; physiology of vision |
Descriptors (secondary) |
myopia; field of vision; glaucoma; astigmatism; cataract; hypermetropia; burns; chemical products; conjunctivitis; training manuals; visual acuity; foreign bodies; presbyopia |
Document type |
C - Training manuals, audiovisual material |
Country / State or Province | Costa Rica |
Subject(s) |
Lighting, colour and vision
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Broad subject area(s) |
Occupational medicine, epidemiology
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Browse category(ies) |
OSH training
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