Eye Health Inequities

Vision impairment affects more than 1 billion people globally and is most commonly linked to uncorrected refractive error, presbyopia, or cataract. Vision loss is unevenly distributed across groups including Indigenous peoples, people in f…

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Vision impairment affects more than 1 billion people globally and is most commonly linked to uncorrected refractive error, presbyopia, or cataract. Vision loss is unevenly distributed across groups including Indigenous peoples, people in financial hardship, remote populations, unhoused people, incarcerated people, and disabled people. Barriers linked to eye health inequities include geography, cost, language, stigma, and difficulty accessing conventional clinical services.