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Press Release – University of Auckland
New Zealand needs more investment in eye health, a global report from The Lancet Global Health shows
One of the report’s recommendations is for countries to collect data on eye health from national surveys to inform planning. New Zealand is among the minority of countries with no such assessment.
The University of Auckland’s Jacqui Ramke, an associate professor in the School of Optometry and Vision Science, was one of 73 experts from 25 countries who contributed to the report,
The Lancet Global Health Commission on Global Eye Health.
“For now, we can only look at data from other countries to estimate the state of eye health in New Zealand,” says Dr Ramke. “For example, a recent national survey in Australia showed that Indigenous Australians have far worse access to eye care than non-Indigenous Australians – and the same could be true here for Māori and Pacific people, but we just don’t have the data we need to plan equitab
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