Avoidable childhood blindness in a high-income country: findings from the British Childhood Visual Impairment and Blindness Study 2.

Despite significant progress in the past decades in high-income countries, there remains a need to be vigilant about implementing preventive strategies and treatments. Attention to disorders that are currently neither preventable nor treatable remains a priority in these settings and will become increasingly important in lower-income and middle-income countries undergoing economic transition.