Eye Sun Awareness

EYE SUN AWARENESS CAMPAIGN

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Building Awareness: Engaging Canadian Millennials about Sun Protection Solutions

This paper summarizes highlights from a panel titled Millennials and the Need for Sun Protection Solutions in Ottawa in April 2017. The panel brought together experts in the eye and skin health fields to discuss and explore the health needs of today’s Millennials and their understanding of and attitudes toward protecting themselves from the sun. The panel featured perspectives of eyecare professionals from the Transitions Change Agent program as well as representatives from the Canadian Association of Optometrists, Canadian Dermatology Association, Canadian Ophthalmological Society and Opticians Association of Canada.

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Brochure

Use this brochure to provide more education to your patients on the importance of protecting the eyes and skin from the sun’s harmful UV radiation.

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Poster

Display this poster in your office to start a dialogue between you and your patients about making sure they are protecting both their eyes and skin from the sun’s harmful UV radiation.

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Sun Protection Solutions Panel: Professionals are seeing higher incidences of sun-related damage to the eyes and skin among younger adults

Dr. Setarah Ziai, MD, FRCSC and Canadian Ophthalmological Society Member; Jennifer Beecker, MD, CCFP (EM), FRCPC, DABD and Canadian Dermatology Association Member; and Ralph Chou, MD and Editor in Chief of the Canadian Association of Optometrists discuss the reportedly higher incidences of sun-related damage to the eyes and skin of younger adults seen in their practice comparatively to 20 or more years ago.

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Sun Protection Solutions Panel: With Millennial patients, use a fashion-based or anti-aging message

Sheena Taff, Licensed Optician, Transitions Change Agent and 2016 Transitions Brand Ambassador and Jennifer Beecker, MD, CCFP (EM), FRCPC, DABD and Canadian Dermatology Association Member emphasize the importance of incorporating a fashion-conscience and/or anti-aging message for certain groups of millennials in order to reach a wider audience about sun protection solutions.

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Sun Protection Solutions Panel: Damage does not equal disease

Dr. Bronwyn Mulherin, OD, Downtown Optometry Clinic and Transitions Change Agent explains the potentially harmful disconnect in many patients between the harmful damage of UV rays to the eyes and the onset of eye-related conditions years later in life.

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Sun Protection Solutions Panel: Full time, all the time, sun protection for the eyes

Dr. Bronwyn Mulherin, OD, Downtown Optometry Clinic and Transitions Change Agent and Ralph Chou, MD and Editor in Chief of the Canadian Association of Optometrists point out the visual, factual evidence that eye and skin sun protection is needed year-round—even in the winter.

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Sun Protection Solutions Panel: Shifting the Focus to Younger Eyes: Kids and Schools

Dr. Setarah Ziai, MD, FRCSC and Canadian Ophthalmological Society Member; Sheena Taff, Licensed Optician, Transitions Change Agent and 2016 Transitions Brand Ambassador; and Robert Dalton, CAE and Executive Director of the Opticians Association of Canada discuss the need to target a younger demographic when it comes to eye sun protection, as well as potential next steps for such an initiative.

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Video 6: The Need for a National Vision Strategy

Robert Dalton, CAE and Executive Director of the Opticians Association of Canada shares his thoughts on the urgent need for a national vision strategy to be adopted in Canada to successfully change awareness levels of the need for sun protection and implement behaviour change among the general public.

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