Evaluating eye health care services progress towards VISION 2020 goals in Gurage Zone, Ethiopia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Ethiopia signed the VISION 2020 Global Declaration and launched its eye health program in 2002. Since then, there has been limited systematic and comprehensive evaluation of the progress towards VISION 2020 goals in Ethiopia.

Objective

To evaluate Gurage Zone progress towards VISION 2020 targets and process indicators.

Method

An institutional-based cross-sectional study was conducted among all public and private eye health care facilities in the Gurage Zone within the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People Region of Ethiopia. The evaluation protocol was adopted from the VISION 2020 situational analysis data collection tool. We used this structure to evaluate progress in terms of human resources for eye health, infrastructure, and service delivery at th

SUBMITTER: Soboka JG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9188140 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature