Underserved groups could be better considered within population-based eye health surveys: a methodological study.
Lucy GoodmanTulio ReisJustine H ZhangMayinuer YusufuPhilip R TurnbullPushkar SilwalMengtian KangSare SafiHiromi YeeGatera Fiston KitemaAnakin Chu Kwan LaiIan McCormickJoão M FurtadoMostafa BondokEric LaiSophie WoodburnMatthew J BurtonJennifer R EvansJacqueline RamkePublished in: Journal of clinical epidemiology (2024)
More effort is needed to improve the design, implementation, and reporting of surveys to monitor inequality and promote equity in eye health. Ideally, national-level monitoring of vision impairment and service coverage would be supplemented with smaller-scale studies to understand the disparities experienced by the most underserved groups.