Mapping the First Nations Eye Care Ecosystem
The ecosystem supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander eye health involves many organisations and agencies working across multiple parts of the health care system to address the various parts of the eye care journey.
A greater transparency, clarity and understanding of the stakeholders in the eye health sector, and their roles, contributions and responsibilities, may help to facilitate improved collaboration and reduced duplication of effort and consequently minimise strains on limited resources: with the ultimate focus of improving eye health outcomes.
A small project group with staff from the Optometry Council of Australia and New Zealand (OCANZ), Optometry Australia and the Indigenous Eye Health Unit at The University of Melbourne have begun work mapping the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander eye health sector. Sector stakeholders have been invited to provide input on the work to projectofficer@ocanz.org
The poster ‘Mapping the Ecosystem supporting Australian First Nations Eye Health’ was presented at the Omega23/WCO4 meeting in Melbourne in September 2023.
