1. VLEG prevalence data have been used in a recent analysis of economic cost of blindness in Europe. A paper entitled “The Economic Impact of Blindness in Europe” by Usha Chakravarthy, Eliana Biundo, Rasit Omer Saka, Christina Fasser, Rupert Bourne, and Julie-Anne Little, will be published in early 2017 in Ophthalmic Epidemiology.
2. VLEG findings were used in the global analyses of eye-health economics carried out by PricewaterhouseCoopers’s economic reports ‘Price of Sight’ and ‘Investing in Vision’ (Feb 2013) [2]. This economic report calculates the costs and benefits of achieving the IAPB’s VISION 2020 goal of eliminating avoidable blindness by the year 2020. It highlights the importance of eye-health for economic prosperity. Key findings include: “In developing countries, an additional investment of only US$2.20 per capita per year for 10 years is required to eliminate avoidable blindness and visual impairment” and “In developing countries, the economic benefits of eliminating avoidable blindness and visual impairment outweigh the costs by a factor of 4 to 1”. The report identifies economic incentives for other governments and third-sector organisations to invest in eye-health programmes, improving public health and economic productivity, as seen, for example, in the draft Eye Health Strategy by Vision2020 Australia for 2014 to 2019 (May 2013).
2. VLEG findings were used in the global analyses of eye-health economics carried out by PricewaterhouseCoopers’s economic reports ‘Price of Sight’ and ‘Investing in Vision’ (Feb 2013) [2]. This economic report calculates the costs and benefits of achieving the IAPB’s VISION 2020 goal of eliminating avoidable blindness by the year 2020. It highlights the importance of eye-health for economic prosperity. Key findings include: “In developing countries, an additional investment of only US$2.20 per capita per year for 10 years is required to eliminate avoidable blindness and visual impairment” and “In developing countries, the economic benefits of eliminating avoidable blindness and visual impairment outweigh the costs by a factor of 4 to 1”. The report identifies economic incentives for other governments and third-sector organisations to invest in eye-health programmes, improving public health and economic productivity, as seen, for example, in the draft Eye Health Strategy by Vision2020 Australia for 2014 to 2019 (May 2013).