Vision care professionals can enable their patients to achieve Healthy Sight through Healthy Sight Counseling, an integrated approach to vision care that focuses on qualitative as well as quantitative vision, places an emphasis on maintenance and preventive eye care, and adapts the standard medical/primary care model to eye care with the goal being to reinforce the relationship between ocular and systemic health and wellness so as to promote both Healthy Sight and Healthy Life.

Healthy Sight Now

Healthy Sight now entails getting the most from vision today. The starting point is the quantitative vision, defined as the best corrected Snellen acuity, and achieved through an accurate and meticulously performed refraction from which an eyeglass prescription is generated. For the vision care professional practicing Healthy Sight Counseling, this prescription must go "beyond the numbers", however, taking into consideration quality of vision concerns, such as light sensitivity, contrast, and glare, and leading to the customized eyeglass prescription, where specific eyeglass lens materials and lens enhancements—such as impact-resistant and high index lenses; fixed-tint, photochromic, and polarized lenses; and antireflective (AR) coatings—are prescribed to address individual visual lifestyle requirements for the wearer.

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Healthy Sight in the Future

Healthy Sight for a lifetime is the goal of Healthy Sight Counseling. The customized eyeglass prescription takes into account risk factors for the preservation and protection of Healthy Sight.

Two of the major risk factors for ocular disease and preventable visual loss are impact and trauma protection and ultraviolet radiation protection. In the customized eyeglass prescription, these risk factors are addressed with the recommendations for impact-resistant lens materials and eyeglass lenses that offer 100% UVA and UVB protection.

The maintenance and preventive medicine aspects of Healthy Sight Counseling concentrate on the diagnosis and treatment of—and, when possible, the prevention of—ocular and systemic diseases that can lead to visual impairment and blindness. The relationship between ocular and systemic health and the impact of systemic diseases on vision and eye health are of paramount importance in the medical model used in Healthy Sight Counseling.

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