Dr. Patricia Era Bath
(November 4, 1942 – May 30, 2019)
Blindness studies and community ophthalmology
Based on her research, she pioneered the worldwide discipline of "community ophthalmology" in 1976[26] after observations of epidemics rates of preventable blindness among under-served populations in urban areas in the US as well as under-served populations in "third-world" countries.[23][27]
Community ophthalmology was described as a new discipline in medicine
promoting eye health and blindness prevention through programs utilizing
methodologies of public health, community medicine and ophthalmology to bring necessary eye care to under-served populations.[4]
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