Preservation and Restoration of Vision:
Vision for the Future, Part 2: Economic Benefits of Ophthalmologic Care: The real issues are price and choice
More on Preservation of Vision:
Initiatives and Organizations:
- International Ophthalmology's Vision for the Future
- VISION 2020: The Right to Sight
- Research Agenda for Global Blindness Prevention
- WHO and Non-Governmental Development Organizations (NGOs)
- IFOS Society Preservation of Vision Initiatives
- Other Initiatives
Information and Resources:
Very often discussions about making eye care accessible to poor people focus on the issue of "low cost" or "appropriate technology" when the real issue is price.
The innovation of Aurolab is not the low manufacturing cost of the lenses; in many developed and developing countries, IOLs can be manufactured at a low cost and with high quality.
Nor is it less expensive or "appropriate" technology - Aurolab employs the same equipment and technology as US or European companies.
The real issues are: price to make the product affordable to the targeted market (poor people with cataract); and developing distribution channels to make the product accessible to poor people.
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Also see:
- Contents of Economic Benefits of Ophthalmologic Care
- Table of Contents for Vision for the Future
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