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Health, including visual health is inextricably linked to school achievement, quality of life, and economic productivity. Health education in the school setting is of fundamental importance as in acquiring and building knowledge of child and adolescent health, the values, abilities, skills and practices necessary for a healthy life are acquired.
These best practice guidelines were developed by IMPACT-EMR, EMR-IAPB, Prevention of Blindness Union (PBU) and WHO-EMRO offices in 2009 for health care authorities, educational authorities developing eye care programmes at the school, health planners, eye care delivery organizations and professionals.
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.
The WHO Vision and eye screening implementation handbook (VESIH) offers a step-by-step guidance for conducting vision and eye screenings in community and primary care settings.
This guidance aims to facilitate the monitoring of both eye and ear care services through presenting a set of core facility indicators along with considerations for analysis and use of routine health information
This PDF document from IAPB's Climate Action Work Group debunks five prevalent myths about climate action and eye care.
