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Patient Resources for African American Eye Health

African American Eye Health: Resources to Share with Patients

National Eye Institute: Eye Health Among African Americans

This site has a collection of infographics, images, handouts, and social media posts you can share with your patients and in your community.

National Optometric Association: Three Silent Killers Initiative

The NOA offers complimentary brochures that you can provide to your patients to help them understand the dangers of eye disease, and promote prevention and routine care.

Celebrate Black History Month

Learn about the history of Black Americans' fight against racism and inequity in medicine and health care.

The Racial Divide in American Medicine: Black Physicians and the Struggle for Justice in Health Care, Richard D. DeShazo

Body and Soul : The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination, Alondra Nelson (unlimited concurrent users)

Deluxe Jim Crow: Civil Rights and American Health Policy, 1935-1954, Karen Kruse Thomas

American Health Dilemma: A Medical History of African Americans and the Problem of Race, W. Michael Byrd

Keeping Heart: A Memoir of Family Struggle, Race, and Medicine, Otis Trotter

Race and Medicine in Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century America, Todd Savitt

"You'll shoot your eye out!": Safe Toys and Gifts Month

Be smarter than Ralphie. Check out these studies and case reports relating to toys and eye injuries.

McLoughlin RJ, Stetson A, Green J, Hirsh MP, Cleary MA, Aidlen JT. Toy guns, real danger: an update on pediatric injury patterns related to nonpowder weapons. J Pediatr Surg. 2020 Jan;55(1):146-152.

Petrarca R, Saldana M. Choroidal rupture and optic nerve injury with equipment designated as 'child-safe'. BMJ Case Rep. 2012 Aug 27;2012.

Farooq MK, Prause JU, Heegaard S. Synthetic fiber from a teddy bear causing keratitis and conjunctival granuloma: case report. BMC Ophthalmol. 2011 Jun 20;11:17.

Fraser EA, Diaper CJ. Retinal tear following closed trauma with a toy balloon. Eye (Lond). 2004 Feb;18(2):228.

Sakata C, Hiraoka T, Oshika T. Unusually large plastic toy as a persisting conjunctival foreign body. Jpn J Ophthalmol. 2007 May-Jun;51(3):232-4.

Raoof N, Chan TK, Rogers NK, Abdullah W, Haq I, Kelly SP, Quhill FM. 'Toy' laser macular burns in children. 2014 Feb;28(2):231-4.

Duma SM, Bisplinghoff JA, Senge DM, McNally C, Alphonse VD. Evaluating the risk of eye injuries: intraocular pressure during high speed projectile impacts. Curr Eye Res. 2012 Jan;37(1):43-9.

Duma SM, Bisplinghoff JA, Senge DM, McNally C, Alphonse VD. Eye injury risk from water stream impact: biomechanically based design parameters for water toy and park design. Curr Eye Res. 2012 Apr;37(4):279-85.

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