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| author | Lisa Donaldson Donna O'Brien Marek Karas |
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| contents | A Review of the Evidence That People with Learning Disabilities Experience Eye Health Inequalities: What Policies Can Better Ensure an Equal Right to Sight? Lisa Donaldson Donna O'Brien Marek Karas Foreign Countries Access to Health Care Vision Affordances Barriers Special Schools Students with Disabilities Optometry School Health Services Intellectual Disability Background: People with a learning disability experience challenges accessing primary health care services, including eye care services. Methods: Eye care needs of people with a learning disability, and how well they are met by existing services in England, were explored. Barriers and enablers to accessing these services were investigated. This was informed by a scoping review of the literature and a historic literature library. Findings: Adults with a learning disability are 10 times more likely than other adults to have a serious sight problem and children with learning disabilities are 28 times more likely. There is good evidence of high levels of unmet eye care need special schools in England with over 4 in 10 children attending having no history of any eye care. Conclusion: The authors discuss possible systemic changes to address these inequalities in England. These include automatic entitlement to an NHS sight test annually, specialist pathways in community opticians, eye care services in special schools, and peer to peer and peer to professional promotion of services by people with lived experience. Dedicated care pathways have improved uptake of services in other areas of primary care. Research into the effectiveness of lived experience eye health advocacy is needed. |
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| spellingShingle | A Review of the Evidence That People with Learning Disabilities Experience Eye Health Inequalities: What Policies Can Better Ensure an Equal Right to Sight? Lisa Donaldson Donna O'Brien Marek Karas Foreign Countries Access to Health Care Vision Affordances Barriers Special Schools Students with Disabilities Optometry School Health Services Intellectual Disability A Review of the Evidence That People with Learning Disabilities Experience Eye Health Inequalities: What Policies Can Better Ensure an Equal Right to Sight? Lisa Donaldson Donna O'Brien Marek Karas Foreign Countries Access to Health Care Vision Affordances Barriers Special Schools Students with Disabilities Optometry School Health Services Intellectual Disability Background: People with a learning disability experience challenges accessing primary health care services, including eye care services. Methods: Eye care needs of people with a learning disability, and how well they are met by existing services in England, were explored. Barriers and enablers to accessing these services were investigated. This was informed by a scoping review of the literature and a historic literature library. Findings: Adults with a learning disability are 10 times more likely than other adults to have a serious sight problem and children with learning disabilities are 28 times more likely. There is good evidence of high levels of unmet eye care need special schools in England with over 4 in 10 children attending having no history of any eye care. Conclusion: The authors discuss possible systemic changes to address these inequalities in England. These include automatic entitlement to an NHS sight test annually, specialist pathways in community opticians, eye care services in special schools, and peer to peer and peer to professional promotion of services by people with lived experience. Dedicated care pathways have improved uptake of services in other areas of primary care. Research into the effectiveness of lived experience eye health advocacy is needed. |
| title | A Review of the Evidence That People with Learning Disabilities Experience Eye Health Inequalities: What Policies Can Better Ensure an Equal Right to Sight? |
| topic | Foreign Countries Access to Health Care Vision Affordances Barriers Special Schools Students with Disabilities Optometry School Health Services Intellectual Disability |
| url | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1422555 |