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123 This issue of Journal of Ophthalmic and Vision Research contains an article describing a Rapid Assessment of Avoidable Blindness (RAAB) study conducted in Kurdistan in 2014.[1] During the last two decades, a few comprehensive eye studies and three RAAB studies have been performed in Iran.[2‐4] These valuable attempts are quite outstanding compared to the situation of Iran’s eye health information in the past and also serve as an exemplar for the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) and other regions. Although the three RAAB studies have been conducted in different provinces influenced by regional specific factors including ethnicity, socioeconomic status and access to eye care services, they all show a high proportion of avoidable blindness. This consistent evidence underlines the necessity of subnational and national strategies towards the prevention of blindness. Another achievement of the current RAAB study is that it has been conducted on a minority ethnic group in Iran and is the first population‐based eye health study carried out on this group. The study reveals that 13.4% of the over 50 years population in this province suffer from visual impairment and the majority of causes are avoidable. Ashrafi et al[1] have diligently compared similarities and differences between Kurdistan and the two other Iranian provinces where RAAB studies have been performed, as well as relevant comparisons with the national average. In addition, they align this assessment with RAAB studies from other countries and provide an overview of the eye health situation in Iran based on the available evidence. However, it should be noted that RAAB studies are designed to evaluate eye health in a district or province at a certain point of time and care should be taken for direct comparisons and particularly, extrapolation of the results to the whole population of a country.[5] Although RAAB studies provide less specific clinical results than comprehensive eye studies, they have been Visual Impairment in Kurdistan and Trend of Epidemiologic Eye Studies in Iran

Visual impairment in kurdistan and trend of epidemiologic eye studies in Iran