Photo screening around the world: Lions Club International Foundation experience

To describe the use of photoscreening for preschool vision screening in several diverse locations throughout the world.

The MTI photo screener was used to screen pre-verbal children; photographs were interpreted using standard criteria.

The Tennessee vision screening program remains successful, screening over 200,000 children during the past 8 years. Similar programs modeled across the United States have screened an additional 500,000 children. A pilot demonstration project in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Brazil screened over 5000 additional children with good success and appropriately low referral rates.

Photoscreening can be an appropriate technique for widespread vision screening of preschool children throughout the world.