Ophthalmic Public Health (OPH)

The College has convened an Ophthalmic Public Health Group with the following remit:-

Remit (aims)

1. To disseminate effectively the ocular public health 'message'
    
2. To promote the UK Vision Strategy. Please visit: http://www.vision2020uk.org.uk/ukvisionstrategy
    
3. To support and inform professionals (ophthalmologists, GPs, optometrists, orthoptists, nurses)
    
4. To educate the public
    
5. To raise awareness of government
    

The following is a list of topics to be covered:

1. Lifestyle and eye disease

• diet

• alcohol

• exercise

• smoking

• specific disease - diabetes, age-related macular degeneration (AMD)
   

2. Provision and uptake of eye care (access and capacity planning, screening)

3. Eye safety at work or recreation

4. Ophthalmic public health and the curriculum

5. Ophthalmic public health and children

6. International public health

Below are the first of the documents that the Group has published:-

Eyesight and diet - Under review and not currently available
 

Alcohol and the Eye

Smoking your sight away

Smoking and eye disease

Exercise and Eyesight

Research Studies and Useful Websites

Smoking causes blindness poster

^New Look after your eyes