A way of the dark Vision 2020: The Right to Sight – what’s next in the global challenge to reduce vision impairment and blindness?
Аннотация
Why collect health data unless you can use it effectively and make it available to everyone who could benefit? The Vision Loss
Expert Group (VLEG) answered that key question by publishing the estimated numbers of people suffering from blindness and vision impairment worldwide in The Lancet Global Health in February 2021 (1). Our ongoing work, supported by several charities,
is in collaboration with the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study and funded by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. At the 20th Anniversary of the GBD in 2017, attended by members of VLEG, Bill Gates explained how his aim was to make disability data “actionable.” This article, featuring leading experts – including the World Health Organization (WHO) and International Agency for Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) – explains the vision disability data that has underlined the 20-year VISION 2020 WHO Initiative, the progress made, and the actions needed to meet the challenges ahead.
Библиографические ссылки
GBD 2019 Blindness and Vision Impairment Collaborators; Vision Loss Expert Group of the Global Burden of Disease Study, “Causes of blindness and vision impairment in 2020 and trends over 30 years, and prevalence of avoidable blindness in relation to VISION 2020: The Right to Sight:
an analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study,” Lancet Glob Health, 9, e144 (2021). PMID: 33275949.
WHO, “Universal Eye Health Global Action Plan 2019-2014.” Available at: http://bit.ly/2ZqIydc.
WHO, “World Report on Vision.”Available at: http://bit.ly/2NiwF6H.
IAPB Vision Atlas, “1.1 billion people live with vision loss,” (2020). Available at: http://bit.ly/3u1JrH8.
