Community Eye Health Journal – Primary Eye Care

The majority of eye conditions can be dealt with at primary health care level – in the communities where people live and work. However, eye care is often missing or not integrated at this level of health care. This issue of the Community Eye Health Journal shares best practices and approaches for integrating eye care within primary health care and includes practical suggestions for eye health promotion and how eye health workers at district or secondary level (and above) can support their colleagues in the primary care sector. We would like to encourage everyone reading this issue to share its contents with policy makers at all levels so they are aware of the need for primary eye care and what they can do to support it.

Speakers include Professor Clare Gilbert, Dr Ada Aghaji and Dr Daksha Patel.

Key articles that will be discussed:

What is primary eye health care?
Why is primary eye health care needed?
Delivering eye health promotion – why and how
The role of the secondary level eye care teams in engaging with and supporting primary eye care

Each speaker will give a short overview of their article followed by a question-and-answer session, so we encourage you to read the articles ahead of time and come prepared with questions.