{"id":3415,"date":"2022-10-10T14:36:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T03:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/boroondaraeyecare.com.au\/?p=3415"},"modified":"2022-10-10T14:36:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T03:36:03","slug":"world-sight-day-13-october-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boroondaraeyecare.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/10\/10\/world-sight-day-13-october-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"World Sight Day &#8211; 13 October 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-accent-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\">World Sight Day is coordinated by the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) and is an opportunity to focus attention on eye health as a global issue. You can get involved by pledging a sight test, entering the photo competition or by spreading the word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\"><strong>SOME KEY FACTS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-color has-text-color\">Child Eye Health<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-light-gray-color has-text-color\"><li>Children with a vision impairment are up to five times less likely to be in formal education and often achieve poorer outcomes.<\/li><li>It is estimated that 40% of children are blind from eye conditions that could be managed or prevented if the child had access to eye care services.<\/li><li>Globally, over 90 million children and adolescents have vision impairment or blindness.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-color has-text-color\">Gender Equality<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-light-gray-color has-text-color\"><li>Of the 1.1 billion people with vision loss, over 50% are female.<\/li><li>Women are 40% less likely to utilise eye care services than men.<\/li><li>In some parts of the world, if girls are blind or significantly vision impaired it is almost impossible for them to access education.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-color has-text-color\">Global Data<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-light-gray-color has-text-color\"><li>1.1 billion people experience vision loss primarily because they do not have access to eye health services when they need them, where they need them.<\/li><li>Over 90% of those with uncorrected vision loss live in low- and middle-income countries.<\/li><li>Unaddressed poor vision results in $411 billion in lost productivity each year.<br><br><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-gray-color has-text-color has-small-font-size\"><em>Source: IAPB<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October is Eye Injury Prevention Month.  Here are some helpful tips for keeping your eyes safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[55,60,56,59,58,57],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boroondaraeyecare.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boroondaraeyecare.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boroondaraeyecare.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boroondaraeyecare.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boroondaraeyecare.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3415"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/boroondaraeyecare.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3419,"href":"https:\/\/boroondaraeyecare.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415\/revisions\/3419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boroondaraeyecare.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boroondaraeyecare.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boroondaraeyecare.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boroondaraeyecare.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}