Global Blindness: Planning and Managing Eye Care Services

By the end of the course you will able to:

Describe the magnitude and causes of blindness and visual impairment, both globally and locally
Evaluate the key public health control strategies to strengthen service provision for cataract and refractive error in your local setting
Apply the essentials of the planning process for implementation in your setting
Assess the relevance of the Vision 2020: the right to sight initiative and the applicability of Global action plan 2014-2019 to your local setting
Interpret the relevance of monitoring and evaluation for effective management of an eye care service

The course on FutureLearn
Learn together with eye health professionals from different cadres, countries and contexts on our FutureLearn courses. Learn also from the lead educator and course facilitators – eye care experts from around the world who share their expertise and experiences in the comments and discussions.

You will be introduced to the magnitude and causes of blindness at a global level, relate to key global initiatives in avoidable blindness and be familiarised with practical approaches to strengthen eye health services, with an emphasis on low and middle income country settings.

This course is intended for all health care providers, health managers, NGO staff with an interest and some experience of, eye care health services. The course will especially benefit:

Eye health providers who lead or manage the service provision of an eye unit or eye care team
All clinical eye care providers who work in isolated and remote settings
Eye care providers with an interest in public health approaches
Any health providers and managers with an interest in resource limited eye care services
Non-governmental staff involved in developing eye care projects in low- and middle-income countries
Charity organisations and philanthropists involved in supporting eye care service provision
Ophthalmic residents and nurses in training programmes with an interest in low- and middle-income health services
Trainers in academic institutions with an interest in developing training in public health approaches for eye care service provision for their local setting