Abstract
Announcing The Lancet Global Health Commission on Global Eye Health
Highlights
Eye health has profound and widespread implications for many aspects of life, health, sustainable devel opment, and the economy
80% of this sight loss is preventable or treatable, and 90% occurs in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs)
Available good quality evidence shows that improved eye health offers the potential to advance progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including those pertaining to poverty, hunger, good health and wellbeing, education, gender equality, and decent work.[3,4,5]
Summary
Eye health has profound and widespread implications for many aspects of life, health, sustainable devel opment, and the economy. Announcing The Lancet Global Health Commission on Global Eye Health. Eye conditions and the vision impairment they cause affect all stages of life, with increasing burden with age.
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