REVIEW article
Front. Med.
Sec. Ophthalmology
Volume 12 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fmed.2025.1585527
This article is part of the Research TopicEpidemiological Characteristics of Ocular Trauma Globally and Their Clinical ImplicationsView all 4 articles
Epidemiology of Ocular Trauma in Limited-Resource Settings: A Narrative Review
Provisionally accepted
- 1University of Missouri, Columbia, United States
- 2Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda
- 3Makerere University, Kampala, Central Region, Uganda
- 4University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Select one of your emails
You have multiple emails registered with Frontiers:
Notify me on publication
Please enter your email address:
If you already have an account, please login
You don't have a Frontiers account ? You can register here
Ocular trauma disproportionately impacts low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) and contributes significantly to blindness and disability in these settings. While numerous publications address the epidemiology of ocular trauma in limited-resource settings, there are no systematic reviews, metaanalyses, or large-scale review articles investigating this topic further. In this article, the authors summarize, compare, and contrast the extant literature on ocular trauma in LMICs.With this synthesis of the available data, the article aims to identify commonalities and potential targets for systemic change in preventing ocular injury and its associated morbidity. The authors seek to highlight modifiable risk factors which may be addressed by providers, health care systems, government agencies, and employers alike.
Keywords: ocular trauma, Emergency Medicine, Limited Resource, low resource settings, Low income and middle income countries, Epidemiology
Received: 28 Feb 2025; Accepted: 20 Jul 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Pelletier, Reagan, McLeod, Kronk, Kamoga, Ohman and Santos. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Jessica Pelletier, University of Missouri, Columbia, United States
Disclaimer: All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher.