Seeing the Bigger Picture: Turning Eye Care into an Economic Growth Story
More than 1.1 billion people worldwide can’t see clearly. Glasses, the primary solution for this crisis are proven and inexpensive. Yet despite vision being essential to daily life, eyecare receives just 0.2% of global health aid. The Seva Foundation approached Mettalytics to build the economic case for investment.
1,100,000
live with avoidable sight loss
Sight loss by gender and region
These modelled data from Vision Loss Expert Group (VLEG) provide global and regional estimates of different levels of sight loss for males and females (all ages).
Filter by region and measure to examine geographical variations and hover over chart segments to view the measure for each level of sight loss.
We soon realised health ministries - the main focus of eye health advocacy - weren’t the right audience. To them, vision impairment simply wasn’t a top health priority.
Glasses, the primary solution for this crisis are proven and inexpensive. Yet despite vision being essential to daily life, eyecare receives just 0.2% of global health aid. The Seva Foundation approached Mettalytics to build the economic case for investment.
These modelled data from Vision Loss Expert Group (VLEG) provide global and regional estimates of different levels of sight loss for males and females (all ages).
Filter by region and measure to examine geographical variations and hover over chart segments to view the measure for each level of sight loss.
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