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Improving Access to Vision Care for People Who are Homeless through Eyeglasses Recycling
- Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 26, Number 4, November 2015
- pp. 1359-1367
- 10.1353/hpu.2015.0123
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Visual impairment disproportionately affects the health and function of people who are homeless. A common and correctable cause of visual impairment is refractive error. However, eyeglasses remain an unmet need for the poor and underinsured. This report describes eyeglasses recycling and vision screening to reduce the burden of correctable visual impairment.