Indian Journal of Ophthalmology (Jan 2012)
Millennium development goals and eye health
- Hannah B Faal
Affiliations
- Hannah B Faal
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.100538
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 60,
no. 5
pp. 411 – 415
Abstract
In September 2000, world leaders made a commitment to build a more equitable, prosperous and safer world by 2015 and launched the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In the previous year, the World Health Organization and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness in partnership launched the global initiative to eliminate avoidable blindness by the year 2020-VISION 2020 the Right to Sight. It has focused on the prevention of a disability-blindness and recognized a health issue-sight as a human right. Both global initiatives have made considerable progress with synergy especially on MDG 1-the reduction of poverty and the reduction in numbers of the blind. A review of the MDGs has identified the need to address disparities within and between countries, quality, and disability. Noncommunicable diseases are emerging as a challenge to the MDGs and Vision 2020:0 the Right to Sight. For the future, up to and beyond 2015, there will be need for both initiatives to continue to work in synergy to address present and emerging challenges.
Keywords
- Diabetes-related blindness
- diabetic retinopathy
- key informant
- rapid assessment of avoidable blindness
- retinopathy of prematurity
- tele-ophthalmology
- Blindness
- disability
- equity
- health economics
- health policy
- health and development
- social exclusion
- Community eye health
- prevention of blindness
- ophthalmogical residency
- VISION 2020
- Visual impairment
- blindness
- inequality
- social class
- income
- educational status
- gender and ethnic groups
- Advocacy
- effective service delivery
- enabling environment
- stakeholders
- resources
- Avoidable blindness and visual impairment
- impact
- scaling up
- VISION 2020
- Global blindness
- prevalence
- visual impairment
- visual acuity
- Comprehensive eye care
- eye care model
- pyramidal model
- Comprehensive eye care
- optometrist
- optometry regulation
- eye health
- India
- Economics
- blindness
- visual impairment
- market
- government
- cost
- Millennium development goals
- eye health
- Vision 2020 the Right to Sight