In late 2000 the Department of Health issued its five-yearly national survey of student near-sightedness. It stated that over the previous five years the incidence of myopia in first-graders had increased from 12 % to 20.4 %, which means that one child in five is already near-sighted even when just starting primary school.
衛生署在八十九年底發表五年一度的「全國學生近視調查」，發現五年來，國小一年級學童的近視率已由百分之十二增加到百分之二十・四，每五個初入小學的孩子就有一個已經近視。