Eyes on the burden:rethinking eye health in the GBD eraOA

In response to the heavy burden of vision impairment and blindness,global commitment to eye health has intensified over the past three decades,giving rise to a series of increasingly sophisticated frameworks and initiatives.VISION 2020,launched in 1999,was one of the first coordinated global agendas targeting avoidable blindness,followed by the Global Action Plan 2014-2019,[1]which set an ambitious target of a 25%reduction in avoidable vision impairment,a goal that was not fully met.[2]More recent efforts include the World Report on Vision,which introduced Integrated People-Centred Eye Care(IPEC),[3]and the Lancet Global Health Commission,which demonstrated eye health’s role in reducing poverty,improving productivity,strengthening education and gender equity,and enhancing wellbeing and social inclusion,thereby establishing it as a core component of universal health coverage and the Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs).[4]