Strengthening the collection and use of health information to promote equity in eye health
In many settings, there has been insufficient information to understand the nature and extent of inequalities in eye health, and whether services are effective at reducing them. This lack of information restricts our ability to plan appropriate strategies to reduce inequality, and to track progress towards equitable eye health. In this theme of our research, we aim to develop, test and promote ways of measuring and monitoring inequality in eye health research, service delivery and policy development.
Ongoing studies
- Measures of socioeconomic status in cross-sectional surveys in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review.
Objective: to identify the most appropriate measures to assess inequality in access to services for inclusion in the Rapid Assessment of Avoidable Blindness (RAAB; http://raabdata.info/) and the Rapid Assessment of Hearing Loss (RAHL) surveys. https://osf.io/czjhe/
Publications
- Evans JR, Mwangi N, Burn H, Ramke J. Equity was rarely considered in Cochrane Eyes and Vision systematic reviews and primary studies on cataract Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2020;125:57-63. DOI: 1016/j.jclinepi.2020.04.024
- Ramke J, Evans JR, Gilbert CE. Reducing inequality of cataract blindness and vision impairment is a global priority, but where is the evidence? Br J Ophthalmol 2018;102:1179-1181. DOI: 1136/bjophthalmol-2018-311985
- Buchan J, Dean WH, Ramke J, Burton MJ. The inverse-research law of global eye health. Eye 2019;33:1976-7. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41433-019-0528-6
- Ramke J, Zwi AB, Silva JC, Mwangi N, Rono H, Gichangi M, Qureshi B, Gilbert CE. Evidence for universal eye health plans. Bull World Health Organ 2018;96:695-704. https://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/96/10/18-213686.pdf
- Ramke J, Kyari F. Strengthening eye health evidence for children in low-income and middle-income countries. Lancet Global Health 2018;6(8):e826-7. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(18)30269-9/fulltext
- Ramke J, Palagyi A, Petkovic J, Gilbert CE. Reporting of inequalities in blindness in low and middle income countries: a review of population-based surveys. Clin Experiment Ophthalmol 2018;46(1):99–100. DOI: 1111/ceo.13001
- Ramke J, Zwi AB, Lee AC, Blignault I, Gilbert CE. Inequality in cataract blindness and services: moving beyond unidimensional analyses of social position. Br J Ophthalmol 2017;101(4):395–400. 10.1136/bjophthalmol-2016-309691
- Ramke J, Qureshi B, Gilbert CE. To realise universal eye health we must strengthen implementation research. Middle East Afr J Ophthalmol 2017;24(2):65–6. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5598304/
- Ramke J. Measuring inequalities in eye care: the first step towards change. Community Eye Health Journal 2016;29(93):6–7. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4995833/
- Ramke J, Zwi AB, Palagyi A, Blignault I, Gilbert CE. Equity and blindness: closing evidence gaps to support universal eye health. Ophthalmic Epidemiol 2015;22(5):297–307. https://doi.org/10.3109/09286586.2015.1077977