In our sample of a third of countries in sub-Saharan Africa, across cadres, the eye health practitioner workforce appears to be growing in more countries than it is shrinking.
Although, across cadres, the eye health practitioner workforce appears to be growing in more countries than it is shrinking, based on current trends very few additional countries in our sample are expected to achieve VISION 2020 targets by year 2020 or after, without further intervention.
We recommend that primary eye care practitioners including optometrists and general medical practitioners in Nigeria and other developing countries should be encouraged to be more mindful about identifying patients with low vision, especially females and the elderly and promptly referring such patients for low vision assessment.
Approximately three-quarters of the world's blind children live in the poorest regions of Africa and Asia, where specialist eye health practitioners are scarce.
The objective was to provide information about various PAL designs to enable eye care practitioners to select designs based on the particular viewing requirements of the patient.
To validate the Ocular Pain Assessment Survey (OPAS), specifically designed to measure ocular pain and quality of life for use by eye care practitioners and researchers.
The primary objective of this supplement is to provide eye care practitioners (ECPs) with the latest research and experience on topics related to contact lens use and patient eye health.
As a result, the eye care practitioners and their lobbyists are pushing legislation that will effectively ban the use of telemedicine in many states.
Furthermore, there are no general and well-accepted guidelines followed by eye care practitioners for interventions that may decrease myopia development in children [ 5].
Among the established reasons are poor utilization of services, lack of awareness of low vision services among patients, ignorance of rehabilitation services, and low vision referral rates among eye care practitioners [ 17, 18].
