Population-based study of spectacles use in southern India

Indian Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 145-155

  Dandona, Rakhi ^a,b,c   Dandona, Lalit ^a,b   Kovai, Vilas ^a   Giridhar, Pyda ^a   Prasad, Mudigonda N ^a   Srinivas, Marmamula ^a  

^a L V PRASAD EYE INSTITUTE   (India)

^b ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF COLLEGE OF INDIA   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Andhra Pradesh; India; Refractive error; Spectacles; Visual impairment

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGED; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; REFRACTION ERROR; SPECTACLES; STATISTICAL MODEL; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EYEGLASSES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; REFRACTIVE ERRORS;

EID: 0036616267     PISSN: 03014738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Dandona L, Dandona R, Srinivas M, Giridhar P, Vilas K, Prasad MN, et al. Blindness in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2001;42:908-16.
2. Dandona R, Dandona L, Srinivas M, Giridhar P, Prasad MN, Vilas K, et al. Moderate visual impairment in India: the Andhra Pradesh Eye Disease Study. Br J Ophthalmol 2002;86:373-77.
3. Dandona R, Dandona L, Naduvilath TJ, Nanda A, McCarty CA. Design of a population-based study of visual impairment in India: the Andhra Pradesh Eye Disease Study. Indian J Ophthalmol 1997;45:251-7.
4. Dandona L, Dandona R, Naduvilath TJ, McCarty CA, Nanda A, Srinivas M, et al. Is current eye-care-policy focus almost exclusively on cataract adequate to deal with blindness in India? Lancet 1998;351:1312-6.
5. Dandona L, Dandona R, Naduvilath TJ, McCarty CA, Srinivas M, Mandai P, et al. Burden of moderate visual impairment in an urban population in southern India. Ophthalmology 1999;106:497-504.
6. Dandona R, Dandona L, Naduvilath TJ, Srinivas M, McCarty CA, Rao GN. Refractive errors in an urban population in southern India: the Andhra Pradesh Eye Disease Study. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 1999;40:2810-8.
7. Dandona R, Dandona L, Srinivas M, Giridhar P, McCarty CA, Rao GN. Population-based assessment of refractive error in India: the Andhra Pradesh Eye Disease Study. Clinical Exp Ophthalmol 2002;30:84-93.
8. US Census Bureau. International data base. http:// www.census.gov (accessed December 2000).
9. United Nations. World urbanization prospectus. New York: United Nations; 1998.
10. Bennett S, Woods T, Liyanage WM, Smith DL. A simplified general method for cluster-sample surveys of health in developing countries. Wld Hlth Statist Quart 1991;44:98-106.
11. Rosner B. Fundamentals of biostatistics. 2nd edition. Boston: PWS Publishers; 1986: 84-92.
12. Dandona R, Dandona L. Refractive error blindness. Bull World Health Organ 2001;79:237-43.
13. Dandona R, Dandona L, Naduvilath TJ, McCarty CA, Rao GN. Utilisation of eyecare services in an urban population in southern India: The Andhra Pradesh Eye Disease Study. Br J Ophthalmol 2000;84:22-27.
14. Dandona R. Barriers to eye-care services in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh: Recommendations for action. PhD Thesis, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 2001.
15. Dandona L, Dandona R, Naduvilath TJ, McCarty CA, Mandai P, Srinivas M, et al. Population-based assessment of the outcome of cataract surgery in an urban population in southern India. Am J Ophthalmol 1999;127:650-8.
16. Singh AJ, Garner P, Floyd K. Cost-effectiveness of public-funded options for cataract surgery in Mysore, India. Lancet 2000;355:180-4.
17. Murthy GVS, Ellwein LB, Gupta S, Tanikachalam K, Ray M, Dada VK. A population-based eye survey of older adults in a rural district in Rajasthan: outcomes of cataract surgery. Ophthalmology 2001;108:686-92.
18. WHO Programme for the Prevention of Blindness and Christoffel-Blindenmission. How to make spectacles at low cost. Geneva, World Health Organization, 1995 (WHO/ PBL/95.50).