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Improving eye health worldwide requires increased prioritisation and funding from governments and international bodies. This in turn needs powerful and robust evidence to make the case for addressing global vision impairment and blindness.<\/p>\n
ICEH has contributed to these efforts by:<\/p>\n
(Seventy-fifth session Agenda, item 24, Vision for Everyone: accelerating action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals<\/a>)<\/p>\n This resolution recognised the current state of eye health and the importance of improving it, while calling on Member States to ensure access to eye care services for their population.<\/p>\n The resolution drew on evidence from the Lancet Global Health Commission on Global Eye Health<\/a>, led by ICEH, which outlined the magnitude of global eye health, links between eye health and factors like mortality and productivity, and the direct positive effect<\/a> of improving eye health on 7 of the United Nations\u2019 Sustainable Development goals (SDGs).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An important part of the Commission on Global Eye Health was the definition of the magnitude of eye health in 2020. These estimates were provided by the Vision Loss Expert Group (VLEG) which takes the majority of its data from Rapid Assessment of Avoidable Blindness (RAAB<\/a>) surveys. RAAB was co-developed by ICEH. The current version of RAAB is supported and managed by the ICEH group.<\/p>\n These global estimates are used to advocate for improved eye health globally and develop national and international policy.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In 2021, the World Health Assembly endorsed two new ambitious global eye care targets for 2030:<\/p>\n \u2022 A 30-percentage point increase in effective cataract surgical coverage (eCSC) and eCSC and eREC, which were initially proposed<\/a> or defined<\/a> by ICEH team members, help to show how successfully countries are addressing the main causes of vision impairment in their populations. They can also act as proxy indicators for the overall monitoring within Universal Health Coverage (UHC), which aims to ensure all people worldwide can access quality health services.<\/p>\n ICEH has also been at the forefront of developing and reporting estimates for these targets:<\/p>\n \u2022 In 2022 we jointly published data with WHO and VLEG on the baseline estimates for eCSC<\/a> and eREC<\/a> for many countries in 2021 <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Global Policy ImpactImproving eye health worldwide requires increased prioritisation and funding from governments and international bodies. This in turn needs powerful and robust evidence to make the case for addressing global vision impairment and blindness. ICEH has contributed to these efforts by: Providing evidence for the first UN Resolution on Vision (Seventy-fifth session Agenda, item […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":845,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11141","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nSupporting data collection and curation for Global Estimates of Sight Loss<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Global Eye Care Targets<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\u2022 A 40-percentage point increase in effective refractive error coverage (eREC)<\/p>\n
\u2022 We have contributed to establishing estimate for progress to the 2030 goal for eREC<\/a>
\u2022 Later in 2025 we will publish updates on progress to the 2030 goal for eCSC
\u2022 Rapid Assessment of Avoidable Blindness Surveys (RAAB<\/a>), which is managed by ICEH, is the main source of data for these estimates<\/p>\n