Delivering Refractive Care to Populations With Near and Distance Vision Impairment: 2 Novel Social Enterprise Models

Priya Morjaria; Susan Bergson; Andrew Bastawrous; Elanor Watts; Sonia Pant; Ella Gudwin; Monika Zinn; Ving Fai Chan

doi:10.1097/APO.0000000000000470

Delivering Refractive Care to Populations With Near and Distance Vision Impairment: 2 Novel Social Enterprise Models

Priya Morjaria
, Susan Bergson
, Andrew Bastawrous
, Elanor Watts
, Sonia Pant
, Ella Gudwin
, Monika Zinn
, Ving Fai Chan

School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

7 Citations (Scopus)

129 Downloads (Pure)

Abstract

Vision impairment due to refractive error affects crucial time periods across the life course—the educational years for children and working years for adults. Refractive error is easily and safely corrected with glasses, but many potential beneficiaries remain uncorrected due to various barriers, which can be addressed with innovative service delivery models. This review describes evidence-based initiatives from 2 social enterprises, Peek Vision and VisionSpring, addressing barriers to refractive error correction in children and working adults, particularly in low-resource settings. The reach, implementation challenges, adoption, and future development of these 2 novel models are described, and research evidence of program effectiveness is presented.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	59-65
Journal	Asia-Pacific Journal of Ophthalmology
Volume	11
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1097/APO.0000000000000470
Publication status	Published - 01 Jan 2022

Access to Document

10.1097/APO.0000000000000470Licence: CC BY-NC-ND

Delivering Refractive Care to Populations With Near and Distance Vision Impairment: 2 Novel Social Enterprise Models
Copyright 2022 Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology. Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of the Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology This is an open access article published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits distribution and reproduction for non-commercial purposes, provided the author and source are cited.
Final published version, 160 KBLicence: CC BY-NC-ND

Cite this

@article{b99d58b4b2174be7b480f96ebdba7b5a,

title = "Delivering Refractive Care to Populations With Near and Distance Vision Impairment: 2 Novel Social Enterprise Models",

abstract = "Vision impairment due to refractive error affects crucial time periods across the life course—the educational years for children and working years for adults. Refractive error is easily and safely corrected with glasses, but many potential beneficiaries remain uncorrected due to various barriers, which can be addressed with innovative service delivery models. This review describes evidence-based initiatives from 2 social enterprises, Peek Vision and VisionSpring, addressing barriers to refractive error correction in children and working adults, particularly in low-resource settings. The reach, implementation challenges, adoption, and future development of these 2 novel models are described, and research evidence of program effectiveness is presented.",

author = "Priya Morjaria and Susan Bergson and Andrew Bastawrous and Elanor Watts and Sonia Pant and Ella Gudwin and Monika Zinn and Chan, \{Ving Fai\}",

year = "2022",

month = jan,

day = "1",

doi = "10.1097/APO.0000000000000470",

language = "English",

volume = "11",

pages = "59--65",

journal = "Asia-Pacific Journal of Ophthalmology",

issn = "2162-0989",

publisher = "Elsevier B.V.",

number = "1",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Delivering Refractive Care to Populations With Near and Distance Vision Impairment: 2 Novel Social Enterprise Models

AU - Morjaria, Priya

AU - Bergson, Susan

AU - Bastawrous, Andrew

AU - Watts, Elanor

AU - Pant, Sonia

AU - Gudwin, Ella

AU - Zinn, Monika

AU - Chan, Ving Fai

PY - 2022/1/1

Y1 - 2022/1/1

N2 - Vision impairment due to refractive error affects crucial time periods across the life course—the educational years for children and working years for adults. Refractive error is easily and safely corrected with glasses, but many potential beneficiaries remain uncorrected due to various barriers, which can be addressed with innovative service delivery models. This review describes evidence-based initiatives from 2 social enterprises, Peek Vision and VisionSpring, addressing barriers to refractive error correction in children and working adults, particularly in low-resource settings. The reach, implementation challenges, adoption, and future development of these 2 novel models are described, and research evidence of program effectiveness is presented.

AB - Vision impairment due to refractive error affects crucial time periods across the life course—the educational years for children and working years for adults. Refractive error is easily and safely corrected with glasses, but many potential beneficiaries remain uncorrected due to various barriers, which can be addressed with innovative service delivery models. This review describes evidence-based initiatives from 2 social enterprises, Peek Vision and VisionSpring, addressing barriers to refractive error correction in children and working adults, particularly in low-resource settings. The reach, implementation challenges, adoption, and future development of these 2 novel models are described, and research evidence of program effectiveness is presented.

U2 - 10.1097/APO.0000000000000470

DO - 10.1097/APO.0000000000000470

M3 - Article

SN - 2162-0989

VL - 11

SP - 59

EP - 65

JO - Asia-Pacific Journal of Ophthalmology

JF - Asia-Pacific Journal of Ophthalmology

IS - 1

ER -

Delivering Refractive Care to Populations With Near and Distance Vision Impairment: 2 Novel Social Enterprise Models

Abstract

Access to Document

Fingerprint

Cite this