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Join IAPBChild eye health is a significant public health issue, particularly in low and middle-income countries. The 2030 In Sight strategy calls on us to leverage school and education settings to address the growing need.
A snapshot of key issues, messages, and resources to help you drive action in child eye health.
Empowering schools to implement sustainable and effective eye health programs for children, especially in resource-limited settings.
This Vision Atlas page shows the magnitude, impact, causes of and solutions for vision loss in children and adolescents.
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Jude Stern / Anthea Burnett
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Marcia Zondervan on belhalf of the Rb-NET / Covadonga Bascaran / Didi Fabian / Richard Bowman / Nick Astbury /
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Children with vision impairment have poorer educational outcomes and are more likely to be excluded from schools. Learn more here.
This page on the Vision Atlas shows how good vision improves helps educational attainment and participation.
21.01.2022
Brooke Blanchard
Our ‘Focus On’ series focuses on Child Eye Health in 2022, the School Eye Health and Refractive Error Work Groups strive to keep eye health on the radar of health and development policy makers, and toolkits and promotional material for World Sight Day includes educational resources for children.
The IAPB School Eye Health Work group is finding solutions to reach more children, raise a higher level of awareness, and educate children and their parents about the importance of eye health.
The IAPB Refractive Error Work Group strives to keep refractive error on the radar of health and development policy makers.
With Focus on Child Eye Health, together we will explore solutions and actions to ensure that vision impairment in children is no longer overlooked.
This pack offers opportunities to educate our children about the importance of eye health and eye tests. Learn more about how our eyes work and why it is important to #LoveYourEyes.
18.06.2024
The IAPB School Eye Health Workgroup has released these guidelines to help deliver standardised comprehensive eye health services to more than 700 million children attending schools around the world.
There is a currently under-tapped opportunity for the sector to leverage schools and catalyse the widespread delivery of eye health promotion, screening and provision of glasses. But we cannot do this alone. We will need to convince wider education partners, including ministries of education, that educational outcomes can be improved by implementing eye health into existing school health programmes.
18.06.2024
The IAPB School Eye Health Workgroup has released these guidelines to help deliver standardised comprehensive eye health services to more than 700 million children attending schools around the world.
08.01.2021
Children with visual impairment lag behind in both school enrolment and learning outcomes, according to research from the World Bank and the EYElliance.
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