News and notices. February 02, 2014
Responding to non-communicable eye diseases through the eye health system
Providing services for non-communicable eye diseases (NCEDs) is challenging and complex, for example requiring screening and approaches to case finding, patient counselling and long-term follow-up. In this article we look at how the whole health system – as it applies to eye health – must be considered in order to offer adequate services for NCEDs. The World Health Organization says the following about health systems: ‘A good health system delivers quality services to all people, when and where they need them.’