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The key informant method: a novel means of ascertaining blind children in Bangladesh


MA Muhit, SP Shah, CE Gilbert, SD Hartley, A … - British Medical Journal, 2007 - bjo.bmj.com
Background: Most information on the causes of blindness has come from examining
children in special education. To obtain a more representative population-based
sample of children, a novel method was developed for ascertaining severe ...
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Prevalence and causes of severe visual impairment and blindness in children in Mongolia


T Bulgan, CE Gilbert - Neuro-Ophthalmology, 2002 - informahealthcare.com
Correspondence and reprint requests to: Clare Gilbert, FRCOphth, MD, MSc Dept.
Epidemiol. Inst. Ophthalmol. Bath Street London EC1V 9EL UK Tel.: +44 207 608
6900 Fax: +44 207 250 3207 E-mail: clare.gilbert@ucl.ac.uk
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Measuring the burden of childhood blindness


JS Rahi, CE Gilbert, A Foster, D Minassian - British Journal of Ophthalmology, 1999 - bjo.bmj.com
Measures of disease frequency alone, however, afford a limited understanding of
the public health significance of childhood blindness. The global financial cost
of blindness with an onset during childhood, in terms of loss of earning ...
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[CITATION] Visual impairment and blindness in children


C Gilbert, J Rahi, G Quinn - Epidemiology of eye disease. New York: Chapman & …, 1998
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Childhood blindness: a new form for recording causes of visual loss in children.


C Gilbert, A Foster, AD Negrel, B Thylefors - Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 1993 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov
The new standardized form for recording the causes of visual loss in children is
accompanied by coding instructions and by a database for statistical analysis.
The aim is to record the causes of childhood visual loss, with an emphasis ...
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Validating key informant method in detecting blind children in Ghana


J Boye, S Kanyi - CommuNIty EyE HEaltH JourNal, 2005 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov
All ICEH MSc students carry out a dissertation project as part of the CEH
course. They spend ten weeks dedicated to the project (five for field work and
five for write up), and the planning is conducted throughout the year. The ...
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Delay in presentation to hospital for surgery for congenital and developmental cataract in …


J Mwende, A Bronsard, M Mosha, R Bowman, … - British Journal of Ophthalmology, 2005 - bjo.bmj.com
Methods: Parents or guardians of all children presenting to KCMC Hospital or
CCBRT Hospital with congenital (recognised since birth or within the first year)
or developmental (cataract leading to reduction in vision after 1 year of ...
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Acceptance of cataract surgery in a cohort of Tanzanians with operable cataract


E Chibuga, P Massae, R Geneau, M Mahande, … - Eye, 2007 - nature.com
We conducted a population-based prospective (cohort) study of cataract patients
from 12 villages in Hai district of Kilimanjaro region, Tanzania. Those
identified with operable cataract were informed of the regular community ...
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Childhood blindness in India.


AK Sil, C Gilbert - Journal of the Indian Medical Association, 2001 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
To date there are no published studies on blindness in children or on its
incidence. Recently information on the causes of blindness in children
identified by community based rehabilitation programmes in two states of ...
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Changing pattern of childhood blindness in Maharashtra, India


P Gogate, M Deshpande, S Sudrik, S Taras, H … - British Journal of Ophthalmology, 2007 - bjo.bmj.com
Results: 1985 students were examined, 1778 of whom fulfilled the eligibility
criteria. The major causes of visual loss were congenital anomalies
(microphthalmos or anophthalmos; 735, 41.3%), corneal conditions (mainly ...
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