title: Optometric preventive health care.
abstract: As a primary provider of health care services, optometry must assume a leadership role in the provision of optometric preventive health care services. The ultimate goal of a visual prevention strategy is to enable each person to live free of visual maladaptation, injury or disease.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009907:Optometry; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control*