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Refractive error blindness


R Dandona, L Dandona - Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2001 - SciELO Public Health
Recent data suggest that a large number of people are blind in different parts
of the world due to high refractive error because they are not using appropriate
refractive correction. Refractive error as a cause of blindness has been ...
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Gender and blindness: a meta-analysis of population-based prevalence surveys


I Abou-Gareeb, S Lewallen, K Bassett, P … - Neuro-Ophthalmology, 2001 - informahealthcare.com
Acknowledgements: The authors thank the BC Office of Health Technology
Assessment for the support needed to carry out this study. In addition, we are
grateful to Dr. Lea Liu for reviewing the Chinese language papers with us. ...
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The prevalence and causes of blindness in the Sultanate of Oman: the Oman Eye Study ( …

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R Khandekar, AJ Mohammed, AD Negrel, A Al … - British journal of ophthalmology, 2002 - bjo.bmj.com
The Sultanate of Oman is located in the south eastern corner of the Arabian
Peninsula and has common borders with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates,
and the Republic of Yemen (see Fig 1). The sultanate with 212 460 square ...
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[PDF] What is the global burden of visual impairment


L Dandona, R Dandona - BMC Med, 2006 - biomedcentral.com
Address: Health Studies Area, Centre for Human Development, Administrative Staff
College of India, Hyderabad, India Email: Lalit Dandona* - dandona@asci.org.in;
Rakhi Dandona - rakhi@asci.org.in * Corresponding author
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Impact of presbyopia on quality of life in a rural African setting


I Patel, B Munoz, AG Burke, A Kayongoya, W … - Ophthalmology, 2006 - Elsevier
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Estimating the burden and economic impact of trachomatous visual loss


KD Frick, EV Basilion, CL Hanson, MA … - Neuro-Ophthalmology, 2003 - informahealthcare.com
Correspondence and reprint requests to: Prof. Kevin D. Frick, Ph.D. Bloomberg
Sch. Publ. Health Dept. Health Policy & Mgmt. Johns Hopkins University 624 N.
Broadway, Rm. 606 Baltimore, MD 21205-1901 USA Tel.: +1-(410) 614-4018 Fax: ...
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Socioeconomic status and blindness

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R Dandona, L Dandona - British Journal of Ophthalmology, 2001 - bjo.bmj.com
Globally there is increasing concern for the health of the poor and for
reduction in health inequalities.2 3 Inequalities refer to relative health
status. In simple terms, this is a measure of how worse off the ...
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The prevalence and causes of visual impairment in Tehran: the Tehran Eye Study

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A Fotouhi, H Hashemi, K Mohammad, KH … - British Journal of Ophthalmology, 2004 - bjo.bmj.com
Results: Of those sampled, 4565 (70.3%) people participated in the study. The
age and sex standardised prevalences of visual impairment on the basis of best
corrected and presenting visual acuity were 1.39% (95% confidence interval ...
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Population-based assessment of refractive error in India: the Andhra Pradesh eye disease …


RD PhD, LD MD, BA Marmamula Srinivas, … - Clinical & Experimental Ophthalmology - interscience.wiley.com
Methods: From 94 clusters in one urban and three rural areas of Andhra Pradesh,
11 786 persons of all ages were sampled using a stratified, random, cluster,
systematic sampling strategy in the Andhra Pradesh Eye Disease Study, a ...
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The Tehran Eye Study: research design and eye examination protocol


H Hashemi, A Fotouhi, K Mohammad - BMC ophthalmology, 2003 - biomedcentral.com
Visual impairment has a profound impact on society. The majority of visually
impaired people live in developing countries, and since most disorders leading
to visual impairment are preventable or curable, their control is a ...
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