Vision 2020 Australia has provided responses to consultation questions to inform development of the National Preventative Health Strategy.
Given the critical role vision plays in supporting childhood development and lifelong health, wellbeing and independence, Vision 2020 Australia believes it is important that the national strategy note that alongside prevention of chronic disease, prevention of avoidable vision loss (potentially alongside other prevention of other sensory loss) has an important role to contribute towards achieving the aims and goals set out in the consultation paper.
The full responses are available below in PDF and Word:
National Preventive Health Strategy – response to consultation questions, September 2020 PDF
National Preventive Health Strategy – response to consultation questions, September 2020 WORD