Resources for Health Educators

Did you know that the annual cost of adult vision problems in the US is over $51 billion every year?  And that half of all blindness is preventable if eye disease is detected and treated early and 90% of all eye injuries could have been prevented. 

Use the Healthy Eyes Educational Series to build awareness among your clients, co-workers, employees or cohorts of eye and vision basics, common adult vision disorders, eye safety precautions and proactive behaviors that give the best chance for a lifetime of healthy vision.

The modular program includes a Presenter Guide and Power Point on various eye health and safety topics that you can customize for your audience.  Modules include:

• Eye Anatomy
• Refractive Errors
• Contact Lens Safety
• Adult Eye Disorders
• Low Vision
• Home Safety
• Sports Safety
• Work Safety

If you would like to use modules from the Healthy Eyes Presentation Series for school or community eye health education, please submit a request to receive download instructions.

Diabetic Eye Disease Educator Course is a self-guided course for healthcare professionals, community health educators, diabetes educators, and anyone responsible for diabetes education for patients or clients. The course equips health educators with important patient education messages about diabetic eye disease and strategies for maintaining healthy vision. The objective is to train diabetes and community health educators to deliver patient education about Diabetic Retinopathy, Cataract and Glaucoma, and the methods for prevention and vision preservation, to those who are diabetic as well as populations at highest risk for developing diabetes.

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