Assessment of eye health programme reach by comparison with rapid assessment of avoidable blindness (RAAB) survey data, Talagang, Pakistan.

Autor: Jadoon MZ; Pakistan Institute of Community Ophthalmology, Peshawar, Pakistan., Awan Z; CBM International, Islamabad, Pakistan., Moin M; College of Ophthalmology and Allied Vision Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan., Younas R; College of Ophthalmology and Allied Vision Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan., Latorre-Arteaga S; Peek Vision, Berkhamsted, UK.; Public Health Research Group, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain., Watts E; Peek Vision, Berkhamsted, UK. elanor@peekvision.org.; Tennent Institute of Ophthalmology, Glasgow, UK. elanor@peekvision.org., Katibeh M; Peek Vision, Berkhamsted, UK.; Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark., Bastawrous A; Peek Vision, Berkhamsted, UK.; International Centre for Eye Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: BMC primary care [BMC Prim Care] 2024 Jul 10; Vol. 25 (1), pp. 250. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jul 10.
DOI: 10.1186/s12875-024-02503-4
Abstrakt: Background: The purpose of this study was to quantify how much of the burden of visual impairment (VI) and unmet need in Talagang, identified by Rapid Assessment of Avoidable Blindness (RAAB) survey data, has been addressed by Community Eye Health (CEH) programme efforts.
Methods: A RAAB survey was carried out in November 2018, with 2,824 participants in Talagang Tehsil, Punjab, Pakistan, aged 50 and over. Census data were used to extrapolate survey data to the population. Alongside this, a CEH programme was launched, consisting of community eye screening, and onward referral to rural health centres, secondary or tertiary ophthalmological services, as required. This health intervention aimed to address the eye care needs surfaced by the initial survey. From 2018 to 2022, 30,383 people aged 50 or over were screened; 14,054 needed referral to further steps of the treatment pathway and more detailed data collection. Programme data were compared to estimates of population unmet needs. Main outcome measures were prevalence of VI, and proportion of need met by CEH Programme, by cause and level of VI.
Results: Among those aged 50 and over, 51.0% had VI in at least one eye. The leading causes were cataract (46.2%) and uncorrected refractive error (URE) (25.0%). In its first four years, the programme reached an estimated 18.3% of the unmet need from cataract, and 21.1% of URE, equally in both men and women.
Conclusions: Robustly collected survey and programme data can improve eye health planning, monitoring and evaluation, address inequities, and quantify the resources required for improving eye health. This study quantifies the time required to reach eye health needs at the community level.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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