Refractive errors

Tropical Doctor

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 207-209

  Wedner, Susanne ^a   Dineen, Brendan ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; APHAKIA; ASTIGMATISM; CHINESE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; EYE SURGERY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; INDIA; INHERITANCE; MYOPIA; POPULATION; PRESBYOPIA; PREVALENCE; REFRACTION ERROR; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPECTACLES; VISUAL ACUITY;

CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; EYEGLASSES; HEALTH PLANNING; HUMANS; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 0142010641     PISSN: 00494755     EISSN: 17581133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/004947550303300406     Document Type: Article

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