Promote high-quality research
To sustain implementation of IPCEC, high-quality implementation and
health systems research is required, thus complementing existing
evidence for effective eye care interventions. Moreover, studies
analysing the costs and benefits of implementing the package of eye
care interventions at the individual and societal level will be necessary.
Eye care has a high potential of benefiting from technological
advances; research is required to ensure such advances impact on
clinical care and people’s lives.
Recommended actions are:
Supporting the creation of a global research agenda that includes
health systems and policy research, and technological innovation for
eye care that facilitate the development of a national research
agenda.
Promoting collaboration between researchers and ministries of health
to ensure research is relevant to the national setting and to the
implementation of IPCEC.
Creating or enhancing existing funding schemes for implementation
and health systems research for eye care.
Promoting return on investment studies to provide evidence on how
investing in eye care secures health, social and economic return.
Strengthening implementation research for scaling-up technological
advances and task-sharing to ensure they rapidly benefit people with
eye conditions and vision impairment.
Encouraging governmental and private foundations in their support
of research on innovative treatments and diagnostics both to
eliminate blindness from eye conditions, and to eliminate eye
conditions.