Perspectives on primary eye care

oleh: GVS Murthy, Usha Raman

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: International Centre for Eye Health (ICEH), London 2009-03-01

Deskripsi

We think of primary eye care (PEC), and any kind of primary health care (PHC), as a ‘frontline’ activity, providing care and identifying disease before it becomes a serious medical issue. However, as this course showed, even a cursory review of systems across the world reveals that there is no common understanding of what primary eye care means and there exists a wide variation both in its content and in the way in which it is delivered.