Results of school eye screening of 5.4 million children in India - A five-year follow-up study

Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 310-314

  Limburg, Hans ^a,b   Kansara, H T ^a   D'Souza, Sandra ^a  

^a Danish Assit Natl Prog Contr B   (India)

^b DANPCB   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

India; Refractive errors; Schoolchildren; Screening

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIA; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFRACTION ERROR; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; SPECTACLES; VISION TEST;

EID: 0032972575     PISSN: 13953907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0420.1999.770313.x     Document Type: Article

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