Health
Avoidable blindness is best eliminated by aligning health systems with government policy. All health programmes should support and strengthen national health systems. Our ultimate aim is that governments will ensure that good quality eye care is available to all people as an integral part of wider health systems.
In the short term we aim to demonstrate approaches which are scalable, adaptable and cost effective and which strengthen and support the overall health system. Primary health care is the best means of reaching the greatest number of people. Eye health has not always been embedded in primary health care.
Here are some key resources, some produced by Sightsavers alone and some in collaboration with others, which showcase our position and research findings on key issues within health that affect the lives of visually impaired people.
Policy and advocacy briefings
- Neglected tropical diseases (NTD) policy brief
- A SAFE Solution: Sightsavers' Fast Track Initiative to Eliminate Blinding Trachoma
- Millennium Development Goals summit
- Strengthening eye health
- Human resource for health and international migration
- Scaling up human resources for eye health
- Policy brief - school health
Research documents
- Causes of blindness in Nigeria
- Community directed interventions in Africa
- HIV and the Eye
- Eye care in India: situational analysis
- Strengthening health systems through health care reform
- Cataract surgical services mapping report Pakistan
- Causes of blindness in Pakistan
- Diabetic retinopathy study in Pakistan
- Guidelines for developing a master research plan
- National trachoma rapid assessment report Pakistan
- Non vision impairing conditions study in Pakistan
- Pakistan National Eye Health Programme - Case Study
- Poverty and blindness in Pakistan
- Prevalence and causes of low vision in Pakistan
- Prevalence of blindness in Pakistan
- Refractive errors in adult population in Pakistan
- Situation analysis of refractive services in Pakistan
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