Open AccessDelivering universal eye health coverage: a call for more and better eye health funding
Author(s) -
Iain Jones
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
international health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1876-3413
pISSN - 1876-3405
DOI - 10.1093/inthealth/ihab073
Subject(s) - eye care , business , health care , quality (philosophy) , sustainable development , optometry , universal coverage , medicine , health policy , economic growth , political science , economics , philosophy , epistemology , law
Additional resources are urgently needed to tackle the increasing burden of vision impairment, to support the delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals, and to live up to the promise to leave no one behind. This commentary reflects on eye health funding in developing economies and calls for a step change in delivering more and better financing and the integration of eye health into universal health coverage. The transformation in funding will need to be done carefully, creatively and collaboratively to ensure that funding results in faster and more sustainable delivery of high quality, affordable eye healthcare for all.