Timely treatment of childhood eye diseases hinges on geographic access to pediatric eye-care clinicians, yet 2 in 5 Canadian children live over 30 minutes from pediatric ophthalmologists, and 90% of CDs have no resident pediatric ophthalmologist at all. These provider-absence and travel-access deserts cluster in the lowest-income and most rural regions, signalling an urgent equity gap.
Qureshi et al. (Wed,) studied this question.