Changing trends in barriers to cataract surgery in India

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 104-109

  Vaidyanathan, K ^a   Limburg, H ^a   Foster, A ^b   Pandey, R M ^c  

^a Danish Assit Natl Prog Contr B   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLINDNESS; HEALTH CARE; SERVICE PROVISION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BLINDNESS; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; POVERTY; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BLINDNESS; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SAMPLING STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

INDIA;

EID: 0032979735     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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