Melbourne - Last week I met with Professor Hugh Taylor and members of the National Indigenous Eye Health Survey Team.
They are considering using digital information systems to get their health and well-being messages out to a geographically remote and resource restricted audience. A difficult prospect for sure yet tending to be far more effective than the old glossy brochure alone!
Professor Taylor is quoted as saying “Indigenous children are born with better eyesight than their non-Indigenous peers. However, by the time they reach adulthood they are six times more likely to be blind and three times more likely to have low vision.”
The key findings of the landmark survey are available here.
November 16th, 2009 at 8:34 am
Onya Paul for alerting me to this survey - the stats on Indigenous blindness are horrific and, as a lapsed nurse, I’m relieved to know there are efforts being made to to get health and well-being messages out to remote areas.