In this guest article, Allison Bartnick from the World Council of Optometry (WCO) introduces a new WCO study, published in autumn 2024, which summarises the findings of the WCO’s 2023 global survey of optometry. The WCO hopes that the results of this study will...
Understanding the growing role of technology and e-health in eye care is an important strand of ECOO’s work. It has been the subject of workshops with ECOO members at both our spring meetings earlier this year in Helsinki and again at our recent autumn meetings in...
Professor Julie-Anne Little Professor Julie-Anne Little graduated with a BSc (Hons) Optometry from Ulster University in 2002, and received her PhD in 2007. She is currently Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in the Centre for Optometry & Vision Science at...
To mark World Optometry Day, 23 March 2022, our new article considers the importance of good eye health across the course of a person’s life. Download the article as a PDF. According to the World Report on Vision published by the World Health Organisation...
The latest data on the professions of optometry and optics in Europe ECOO is delighted to announce the publication of its third edition of the Blue Book, a valuable aggregation of data on the professions of optometry and optics in countries across Europe. Read the...
