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diabetic retinopathy. The Foundation operates in more than 25 countries including Australia and across The Paci c, South and South East Asia, and Africa.
The Foundation works with in-country partners
to strengthen and expand eye health services. For several years, The Foundation and partners gathered information relating to consumer access barriers by conducting KAP (Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices) surveys. Over time however, design,
Introducing CEEHAT a tool that will provide critical information about community eye health to organizations wishing to strengthen local eye health services and public eye health awareness campaigns.
The tool assists health services and other stakeholders to:
• Understand and identify responses to local barriers to eye health service access and uptake;
• Evaluate the effectiveness of programs intending to address determinants of eye health service access and uptake. When used to scale, core indicators may allow the identi cation of national and global trends and opportunities, in relation to levels of community opportunity, capacity and motivation to engage with eye health and care; and
• Identify the percentage of people with disability in the community who may face restrictions to their participation in eye health services due to the present dif culties in six core functional domains through the use of Washington Group (WG) Short Set.
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