title: Optometric services in the prison system.
abstract: Traditionally, optometric services have been limited to practitioners' offices or clinical settings. Recently more optometric practitioners have ventured out of the office to provide eye care to those who otherwise would not receive such care. This report discusses the need to provide eye care to prison inmates. It also addresses the nature of vision and eye problems more common among the prison population and the need for mandated eye care for the inmates.
authors.affiliation: Pennsylvania College of Optometry, Philadelphia.
authors.forename: S B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Verma
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000639:trends; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D009907:Optometry / Q000639:trends*; D015143:Philadelphia; D011330:Prisons; D012160:Retina / Q000473:pathology; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D015351:Vision Screening