Comm Eye Health Vol. 29 No. 93 2016. Published online 01 July, 2016
Everyone matters
![People living in rural areas or in poverty are often unable to access eye care, even when it is available free of charge. It is important to bring eye care closer to these communities, for example by offering visual acuity screening in the community. CAMEROON. Azahara Sánchez/IAPB](https://cehjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/21280041516_8e35148c38_o.jpg)
Inequalities in health can exist for various reasons, some of which are biological (e.g. a higher incidence of cataract in people over 60 years of age). If these inequalities are avoidable, however – e.g. if services were made more affordable – then they are better described as inequities, a word which captures the unfairness of the situation.
Equal provision of eye health does not create equity: it is important to ensure that eye care provision is proportional to need.
Articles in this issue –
- Inequality and inequity in eye health
- Tackling inequality and inequity in eye health: can the SDGs help us?
- Overcoming challenges in the UK’s National Health Service
- Measuring inequality in eye care: the first step towards change
- Putting women’s eyesight first
- How to ensure equitable access to eye health for children with disabilities
- Assisting people who are visually impaired
- The importance of assessing vision in disabled children – and how to do it
- Eye care in rural communities: reaching the unreached in Sunderbans
- Improving access to eye care for older people: experiences in South Africa
- Assessing vision in a baby
- Understanding and caring for the direct ophthalmoscope
- Eliminating trachoma: accelerating towards 2020
- Field testing project to pilot World Health Organization global eye health indicators in Latin America: lessons learned thus far
Continuing professional development –
News and notices –
- Teaching institutions
- Next issue
- British Council for the Prevention of Blindness Grants Programme
- Inequalities in eye health at the IAPB 10GA
- Subscriptions
- New South Asia edition of the Community Eye Health Journal
Further information about this issue –
Consulting editor for Issue 93: Sally Crook