Access to Eye Care

Having spectacles did not necessarily mean participants had effective correction. More than half of participants had never received an eye examination before the outreach event. Pramuka Island participants faced a local lack of eyewear sho…

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Having spectacles did not necessarily mean participants had effective correction. More than half of participants had never received an eye examination before the outreach event. Pramuka Island participants faced a local lack of eyewear shops or optical services. Early routine school vision screening was framed as necessary for detecting uncorrected refractive error, amblyopia, and other ocular pathology.