Context
The Canadian health system is complex and is made up of different territorial players, as well as a private sector. Therefore, the Canadian health system can be very complicated to navigate for patients. It is because health care in Canada is comprised of a patchwork series of publicly funded provincial and territorial services under federal mandates. The complexities of such a regional system are only exacerbated in vision care, which entails both public and private services and fundings.
Today, 5.5 million Canadians are affected by eye diseases. The prevalence of these diseases is expected to increase by 30% over the next 10 years.
Supported project
In 2019-2020, L'OCCITANE CANADA and the L'OCCITANE Foundations renewed their support to the "Vision care pathways hub" project of the Foundation For Fighting Blindness. Vision Care Pathways is an online information and services hub, which is based on four years collecting patient information and developing resources.
Hosted on the Foundation's website, the Hub educates patients, ophthalmologists, optometrists, opticians, and other vision health providers, empowering them to locate optimal pathways through vision care.
For the next phase of the project, the NGO planned to hire and train an individual to be a Patient Navigator who communicated with patients directly and walked them through the resources of the Hub.
Some figures
Budget 20,000 euros
Goal 112,500 beneficiaries
Partnership history
Project supported since 2015
Since 2015, L'OCCITANE Canada and the Foundation has supported Fighting Blindness Canada for its Vision Pathways Hub project, which focuses on patient dialogue and online medical data collection.
