Скачать или смотреть California's Gaps in Children's Vision Care/California Children's Vision Care Public Health Metrics

The meeting focused on the urgent need to improve children's vision care access in California, presented by Doug Major of the California Children's Vision Now Coalition. He highlighted that California ranks last in children's vision care access and shared research showing that untreated vision issues, particularly astigmatism, significantly impact academic performance, especially among low-income and Hispanic students. Major presented data from San Mateo County showing only 607 glasses were filled from over 10,000 prescriptions due to the prison industrial authority's exclusive prescription filling policy. He emphasized that a simple solution exists through the California Vision Care Public Health Metrics Act, which would require publicly reported vision care data similar to dental care, without adding new mandates or benefits. Major concluded by sharing success stories from Vision to Learn's mobile clinics, which have provided glasses to over 200,000 children in Los Angeles, demonstrating that proper vision care can significantly improve students' academic performance.