Research and reports

November 2005 National Framework for Action to Promote Eye Health and Prevent Avoidable Blindness and Vision Loss

This link will take you to the Australian Department of Health and Ageing website. This document sets out a strategic National Framework for action for the promotion of eye health and the prevention of avoidable blindness.

October 2009 National Indigenous Eye Health Survey

This link will open the Resources page of the Vision 2020 Autralia website, where you can download the National Indigenous Eye Health Survey report. The survey was designed to provide essential evidence to be used to plan and prioritise the effective delivery of eye care for Indigenous Australians. It was published by the Indigenous Eye Health Unit in collaboration with Centre for Eye Research Australia and the Vision CRC.

August 2004 Clear Insight: The Economic Impact and Cost of Vision Loss in Australia

This link will take you to the Centre for Eye Research Australia (CERA) website, where both the Overview and Full Report are available.
This report, prepared by Access Economics, discusses the direct health costs, indirect health costs and cost of suffering vision impairment in Australia.

June 2005 Investing in Sight: Strategic Interventions to Prevent Vision Loss in Australia

This link will open a PDF document on the Centre for Eye Research Australia (CERA) website.
This report, prepared by Access Economics, suggests a plan of strategic interventions to not only reduce the cost but save the community millions of dollars in the long term. It follows the Clear Insight report (available above).

February 2006 Centrally Focussed: The Impact of Age-related Macular Degeneration

This link will open a PDF document on the Centre for Eye Research Australia (CERA) website.
This report, prepared by Access Economics, follows on from Clear Insight (available above). It gives a dynamic economic model of the impacts of age-related macular degeneration.

February 2008 Tunnel Vision: The economic impact of primary open angle glaucoma

This link will open a PDF document on the Centre for Eye Research Australia (CERA) website. This report, prepared by Access Economics, constructs a dynamic model of primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) in Australia, to inform policy development.

October 2005 Victorian Ophthalmology Service Planning Framework

This link will take you to the Victorian Department of Health website.
This document provides a framework for the delivery of public ophthalmology services in Victoria to the year 2016. A copy of the framework and related documents are available for download.

2001 Risk factors for age-related maculopathy, The Visual Impairment Project

This link will take you to the Archives of Opthalmology website (Volume 119, no 10, pp.1455-1462). The article describes the risk factors for age-related maculopathy (ARM) and age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in Australians aged 40 years and older.

2007 The Blue Mountains Eye Study

This link will take you to the Centre for Vision Research website. The study was the first large population-based assessment of visual impairment and common eye diseases of an older Australian community sample.