Socio-economic differences in accessing NHS spectacles amongst children with differing refractive errors living in Scotland

• Published in: Eye (London) Vol. 36; no. 4; pp. 773 - 780
• Main Authors: Kearney, Stephanie, Strang, Niall C., Lewsey, Jim, Azuara-Blanco, Augusto, Jonuscheit, Sven
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.04.2022; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 692/308/174; 692/700/478/174; Adult; Age; Child; Children; Educational attainment; Eye diseases; Eye Diseases, Hereditary; Eye examinations; Eyeglasses; Health disparities; Humans; Hyperopia; Inequality; Information services; Laboratory Medicine; Medical screening; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Myopia; Ophthalmology; Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology; Population; Public health; Refractive Errors - diagnosis; Refractive Errors - therapy; Scotland - epidemiology; Socioeconomic Factors; State Medicine; Surgery; Surgical Oncology; Visual impairment; Scotland; United Kingdom > UK

Background/objectives Adults living in more deprived areas are less likely to attend an eye examination, resulting in greater visual impairment from undiagnosed eye disease and a widening of health inequalities. It is unknown if the introduction of free NHS eye examinations and help with spectacle c...