Follow-Up Adherence After Community Health Vision Screening Programs: A Review of the Literature

Abstract

Objective Although the purpose of community eye screening programs is to reduce health care disparities, the effectiveness of these programs is limited by the follow-up adherence of their participants. The aim of this review is to investigate factors that may promote or hinder participants from attending follow-up ophthalmological exams after community eye screenings and identify interventions to increase follow-up rates.

Keywords

• Health care disparities
• ophthalmology
• community health
• screenings
• follow-up adherence