Comm Eye Health Vol. 20 No. 63 2007. Published online 01 September, 2007
Refractive error
![5546875561_5e27370633_o.jpg A patient undergoes refraction. INDIA. © Dhivya Ravilla](https://cehjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/5546875561_5e27370633_o-e1371225120861.jpg)
In the late 1990s, two papers from very different parts of the world, Australia and India, highlighted the fact that uncorrected refractive error was a significant cause of blindness and the major cause of impaired vision. It has become essential to plan and fund the solution to uncorrected refractive error.
Articles in this issue –
- Uncorrected refractive error: the major and most easily avoidable cause of vision loss
- Presbyopia: prevalence, impact, and interventions
- Delivering refractive error services: primary eye care centres and outreach
- Making refractive error services sustainable: the International Eye Foundation model
- Sourcing acceptable spectacles
- Training to meet the need for refractive error services
- Community perceptions of refractive errors in Pakistan
- Test distance vision using a Snellen chart
- Experiences with optical centres in West Africa
- A public-private partnership to provide spectacles for Timor-Leste