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Target Population

  • School children

  • Myopic children

  • School teachers, students, and parents


Description

Myopia Prevention and Treatment Center in Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital integrates community preventive interventions with medical center treatments, providing schoolchildren with myopia treatment and refractive screening, myopia vision correction, regular myopia eye examinations, and treatment for myopia-related complications. Furthermore, it promotes community health education, school-based vision screenings by physicians, and continuing education conferences and courses for professionals. The center also provides expert consultation to the government to facilitate the formulation of legislation, and participates in the execution of national vision health programs for schoolchildren.


Key Highlights

  • In 2010, Dr. Wu proposed integrating outdoor myopia prevention as a policy into school-based programs through the education system and government agencies, ensuring that students achieve sufficient outdoor activity hours to prevent myopia.

  • Promote and advocate for strengthening the protective factor – outdoor activity – to prevent and control myopia.

  • Extend the research beyond hospitals, bringing the findings of medical research (outdoor activity as a protective factor against myopia) to communities, schools, and populations.

  • The world's first public health intervention program using education policy to effectively implement children's outdoor activities.

Service Data

  • Organized the Health Promotion Administration's "Intervention Program for Vision Health Care of Lower Elementary School Students," covering four regions nationwide: North, Central, South, and East, with 24 elementary schools participating.

  • Participated in and implemented the Ministry of Education's "Student Vision Health Care Program" since 2012, covering 22 counties and cities nationwide (including Taipei City).


Featured Outcomes

  • National prevalence of poor vision among primary school children: 50.01% (2011) → 45.12% (2025)

  • Results of community and national school outdoor activity program studies published in Ophthalmology (IF 7.479, 2018), ranked first among clinical ophthalmology journals, in 2013 and 2018.


Safety Outcomes

Poor vision rate in children<50%


Satisfaction

Ten schools with outstanding performance in vision care were selected.


International Achievements

  • Dr. Wu Pei-chang is one of the 11 members of the "Interventions for Myopia in the International Myopia Institute" panel, and the only Taiwanese member among all 85 members.

  • Invited to speak and visit multiple countries (WHO, Japan, Singapore, Australia) to discuss the importance of school-based programs for the effective implementation of outdoor activities.

  • Included in the American Academy of Ophthalmology's myopia prevention teaching materials videos.


Benefits and Impacts

  • Assisted the Ministry of Education in promoting the Million Schoolchildren's Vision Health Plan since 2012

  • Influenced National Policy – ​​Leading to the enactment of the Optometrists Act

  • Influenced National Policy – ​​The world's first to adopt warnings for 3C products targeting young children

  • Influenced National Policy – ​​Assisted the National Education Administration of the Ministry of Education in establishing the Vision Health Strategy Advisory Committee

  • Resource Integration – Assisted the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the Health Promotion Administration, and the Ophthalmological Society in establishing a dialogue mechanism

  • Influenced National Policy – ​​Formulated clinical guidelines and recommendations for myopia prevention and control

  • The world's first policy involving outdoor activities to reduce the incidence of myopia

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Make it possible with Myopia prevention

Public health and medical promotion of myopia as a disease and outdoor activities to prevent myopia.
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