Background: Eye care professionals have been making short visits to developing countries
for decades in an effort to reduce visual impairment caused by refractive error. A 2006 …

Uncorrected refractive error is the leading cause of global visual impairment. Given resource
constraints in developing countries, the gold standard method of refractive error correction …

Volunteering for development is a long-standing form of development assistance. Vision Aid
Overseas is an international NGO that works to enable people living in poverty to access …

Purpose The aim was to compare the power of spectacles donated to a recycled spectacle
program to the custom‐made spectacle refractive prescriptions dispensed in a developing …

Background Little is known about the contributions of faith-based organisations (FBOs) to
health systems in Africa. In the specialist area of eye health, international and domestic …

Background: Optometric services in many parts of the world are unavailable, or when
available, limited to those individuals who have the resources and proximity to gain access …

Aim: the study aiming to measure the difference of eye care services in the two countries
Saudi Arabia and Scotland. The difference of health care system and how to achieve World …

There is great potential to reduce the incidence and prevalence of visual impairment if
concentrated effort is made through interventions that follow the health systems …

As a specialist, mainly hospital-based service, eye care developed unevenly in Tanzania as
a result of wider health system changes during the 20th Century. Today, eye health cadres …

2.1. 4! Integration of eye health services into primary health care 15! 2.1. 5! Health system
strengthening to support eye care 17! 2.2! The human resources for health crisis 19! 2.2. 1 …