Primary eye care in Timor-Leste
- Jacqueline Ramke1,2,
- Ilse Blignault2,
- Karen Hobday1,
- Lucy Lee1,
- Garry Brian1,3,4
- 1The Fred Hollows Foundation New Zealand, Auckland, New Zealand
- 2School of Public Health and Community Medicine, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
- 3Population Health Eye Research Network, Brisbane, Australia
- 4Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
- Correspondence to Jacqueline Ramke, The Fred Hollows Foundation New Zealand, Private Bag 99909, Newmarket, Auckland 1023, New Zealand; jramke{at}gmail.com
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Contributors JR was involved in the conception and design, supervision of data acquisition, statistical analysis and interpretation, drafting the article and obtaining funding and is the guarantor for the paper; IB was involved in interpretation of the data, drafting the article and revising the draft critically for intellectual content; KH was involved in conception and design and drafting the article; LL was involved in conception and design, data acquisition and supervision, and revising the draft critically for intellectual content; GB was involved in the conception and design, supervision of data acquisition and revising the draft critically for intellectual content.
- Accepted 4 September 2011
- Published Online First 14 October 2011
The Vision 2020: Right to Sight Initiative calls for the inclusion of primary eye care (PEC) in primary healthcare interventions. To date, there is no agreement on a definition for PEC or how best to implement it.1 It has variously involved village health workers (VHWs) delivering health education to communities to prevent eye diseases, or general health workers at …
