Strategies for cataract and uncorrected refractive error case finding in India: Costs and cost-effectiveness at scale.

ABSTRACT:

Background

India has the largest number of individuals suffering from visual impairment and blindness in the world. Recent surveys indicate that demand-based factors prevent more than 80% of people from seeking appropriate eye services, suggesting the need to scale up cost-effective case finding strategies. We assessed total costs and cost-effectiveness of multiple strategies to identify and encourage people to initiate corrective eye services.

Methods

Using administrative and financial data from six Indian eye health providers, we conduct a retrospective micro-costing analysis of five case finding interventions that covered 1·4 million people served at primary eye care facilities (vision centers), 330,000 children screened at school, 310,000 people screened at eye camps and

SUBMITTER: Wong B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10305965 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature