Myopia: Farsightedness

As we have all found out over the past year, the best way to respond to a global pandemic is with a unified global response. And eye care professionals were perhaps more familiar with the ‘p’ word than most, having heard for many years the term ‘pandemic’ used in association with myopia. And, with a rapidly increasing incidence of myopia in recent decades leading to a prevalence in some parts of the world approaching 100 percent combining with growing evidence of a strong association with visual impairment and eye disease, the term was not being used lightly. So, the recent resolution from the World Council of Optometry (WCO) is something we should all be aware of and support as best we can.