Perspectives on primary eye care

Abstract

We think of primary eye care (PEC), and any kind of primary health care (PHC), as a ‘frontline’ activity, providing care and identifying disease before it becomes a serious medical issue. However, as this course showed, even a cursory review of systems across the world reveals that there is no common understanding of what primary eye care means and there exists a wide variation both in its content and in the way in which it is delivered.

Keywords

• Primary Health Care
• Referral & Consultation
• Delivery of Health Care
• Health Education
• Eye Diseases
• diagnosis
• Vision Screening