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Age-adjusted prevalence of blindness has reduced over the past three decades, yet due to population growth, progress is not keeping pace with needs. We face enormous challenges in avoiding vision impairment as the global population grows and ages.
This updated assessment of global vision impairment contributes to VISION 2020: The Right to Sight by providing up-to-date global and regional sex-specific and age-specific estimates of vision impairment, analyses of how vision impairment rates and cases have changed over time, and projections by region to 2050. The current study also allows us to assess the World Health Assembly 2013 resolution to decrease avoidable moderate or worse distance vision impairment by 25% from 2010 to 2019. Our results suggest that total cases of moderate or worse distance vision have increased since 2010, and therefore, in terms of crude prevalence, the target was not reached.
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The Vision Loss Expert Group (VLEG) populates and curates the Global Vision Database, a continuously updated, comprehensive, online database storing worldwide ophthalmic epidemiological information. Learn more.
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.
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
ROP related blindness can be prevented by improving comprehensive preterm care and screening at appropriate time.
Exploring the Impact of Environmental Conditions on the Ocular Surface - A Review of Risk Factors
Interventions To Slow The Progression Of Myopia
