Refractive error blindness

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 237-243

  Dandona, Rakhi ^a,b   Dandona, Lalit ^a  

^a L V PRASAD EYE INSTITUTE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amblyopia; Complications; Etiology; Etiology (source: MeSH); Refractive errors

Indexed keywords

BLINDNESS; DISEASE CONTROL; HEALTH CARE; REFRACTION; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

AMBLYOPIA; APHAKIA; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CATARACT EXTRACTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; REFRACTION ERROR; VISION TEST; VISUAL ACUITY;

AMBLYOPIA; BLINDNESS; EYEGLASSES; HUMANS; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 0035086321     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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