The Children’s Vision Health Map

Over 600,000 children in the United States are living with uncorrectable visual acuity loss or blindness, and millions more experience vision problems from uncorrected acuity problems that could be easily resolved with glasses or contact lenses.  In this report, we describe the case definitions, methods, and data sources used to create the Prevent Blindness Children’s Vision Health Map, the first ever online interactive system specifically designed to explore geographic variations in common children’s vision problems.