Understand global blindness and how to plan effective eye care with this online course for health professionals. Find out how to plan and manage eye care, to avoid blindness. Around the world, 285 million people are blind or visually impaired. 75% of this is avoidable and 90% is in low- and middle-income countries. In this online course we highlight the key facts about avoidable blindness and global initiatives to address it.

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What topics will you cover?

- Epidemiological data on the causes and prevalence of blindness and visual impairment

- VISION 2020: The Right to Sight

- The Global Action Plan 2014-2019

- Key public health strategies for cataract and refractive error

- Health systems strengthening

- The essentials of the planning process for eye care programmes

- The principles of monitoring and evaluation

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you'll be able to...

- Describe the magnitude and causes of blindness and visual impairment, both globally and locally.

- Evaluate the key public health control strategies to strengthen service provision for cataract and refractive error in your local setting.

- Apply the essentials of the planning process for implementation in your setting.

- Assess the relevance of the Vision 2020: the right to sight initiative and the applicability of Global action plan 2014-2019 to your local setting.

- Interpret the relevance of monitoring and evaluation for effective management of an eye care service.