Integrated people-centered eye care: A scoping review on engaging communities in eye care in low- and middle-income settings.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Community engagement has been endorsed as a key strategy to achieving integrated people-centered eye care that enables people and communities to receive a full spectrum of eye care across their life-course. Understanding the ways communities are engaged in eye care, to what degree participation is achieved, and the factors associated with intervention implementation is currently limited.

Objective

The scoping review aimed to assess how community engagement is approached and implemented in eye care interventions in low- and middle-income countries, and to identify the barriers and facilitators associated with intervention implementation.

Methods

Searches were conducted across five databases for peer-reviewed research on eye care interventions engaging commun

SUBMITTER: Lee L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9851534 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature