Fundamental and symptomatic causes of myopia in children and adolescents:optimization and improvement of a compre-hensive system
Prevention and control of myopia requires comprehensive measures.Based on the system established earlier,the sys-tem is revised and upgraded.The original system emphasizes comprehensive measures and proposes to focus on both the symptoms and root causes.These measures are summarized into six aspects,three address the root cause measures including health education,glasses optics and visual environment,and three address symptoms measures including eye exercises,physical therapy and drugs.The paper is comprehensively supplemented and analyzes the primary and the secondary,and promotes physical therapy from trea-ting the symptoms to treat both the symptoms and the root causes.These improvement measures will help promote the prevention and control of myopia in children and adolescents.
MyopiaPreventive health servicesHealth promotionChildAdolescent