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The Summary guide on quality standards for spectacles simplifies global quality standards and provides practical guidance on best practices for dispensing spectacles.
The Summary guide on quality standards for spectacles simplifies global quality standards and provides practical guidance on best practices for dispensing spectacles. It also sets out minimum quality standards for lenses, frames, and ready-made spectacles, ensuring safe and effective use to meet population needs. Additionally, the guide highlights the importance of environmental considerations and includes recommendations on recycling spectacles.
People living in low- and intermediate-resource settings face multiple challenges when accessing good quality spectacles, including geographical, social and financial barriers.
This guide aims to support service providers, including ministries of health, in ensuring that optical products meet quality and safety requirements, providing effective and reliable products for users in line with the WHO SPECS 2030 initiative. It intends to aid countries in making informed decisions when procuring spectacles and spectacle components.
The Competency-based refractive error teams (CRET) tool, developed by the World Health Organization (WHO), is a practical resource designed to support the delivery of high-quality, team-based refractive error services.
This handbook provides practical guidance to support the establishment of sensory screening programmes for school-age children.
This report outlines how an ageing population, rising diabetes rates, and low awareness of retinal conditions in Asia Pacific are reshaping vision care, highlighting new opportunities to improve care through existing systems.
This summary of Better Education in Sight provides an estimate of global learning and economic productivity losses from uncorrected refractive error in schools.
The IAPB School Eye Health Workgroup has released these guidelines to help deliver standardised comprehensive eye health services to more than 700 million children attending schools around the world.
Inclusiveness and Health Equity for Persons with Disabilities
The WHO Vision and eye screening implementation handbook (VESIH) offers a step-by-step guidance for conducting vision and eye screenings in community and primary care settings.
This report highlights the impact and success of the 2023 Love Your Eyes at Work campaign.
The 2023 Annual Report of CBM's eye care work across its programmes. Inclusive, comprehensive and integrated- CBM's Eye Health Initiative reports on it latest work in eye health.
This guidance aims to facilitate the monitoring of both eye and ear care services through presenting a set of core facility indicators along with considerations for analysis and use of routine health information
The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) have collaborated to produce a report on Eye Health and the World of Work
This report was authored by the Deloitte Center for Health Economics working with Roche and IAPB
