SEVA
Preventable blindness and vision impairment in India
Brief
This analysis examines which strategies are the most effective to address the large and growing causes of preventable blindness and vision impairment in India.
Reports:
The largest ever costing study in global eye health
In collaboration with researchers from six Indian eye care providers, the Seva Foundation and Johns Hopkins University, a cost and cost-effectiveness analysis was published in the Lancet Regional Health: Southeast Asia. The study documented the costs of providing five interventions which collectively covered 2.4 million people screened for vision impairment in a year.
Poor vision costs India up to 0.7% of GDP every year
The second study, published in the Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, modelled six types of losses from poor vision, finding that blindness and visual impairment generates losses for India, equivalent to 0.47% to 0.70% of GDP every year.
