EPIDEMIOLOGIC ASPECTS, DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF PREVENTION IN OPHTHALMOLOGY IN RELATION TO DIFFERENT AGES

In the ophthalmological field, it is not always easy to adopt a primar y prevention, Much more useful would be a secondary prevention program towards the affections at birth or those later developed that, if dia gnosed and treated early, grant a normal visual development, Different iated prevention can be carried out, according to various ages: at the tender age congenital glaucoma and cataract, strabism, ametropia, ani sometropia (possible cause of amblyopia) have to be considered; in the adult-senile age must be prevented damages due to hypertension, diabe tes, thrombosis, as well as cataract, glaucoma, uveitis, kerato- conju nctivitis and retinal detachment.