VISION 2020: The Right to Sight - A Global Initiative to Eliminate Avoidable Blindness

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 615-620

  Pizzarello, Louis ^a,b,e   Abiose, Adenike ^a   Ffytche, Timothy ^a   Duerksen, Rainaldo ^a   Thulasiraj, R ^a   Taylor, Hugh ^a,c   Faal, Hannah ^a   Rao, Gullapali ^a   Kocur, Ivo ^d   Resnikoff, Serge ^d  

^a Intl Agy for the Prev of Blindn   (United Kingdom)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; VISION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

BLINDNESS; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; VISION, LOW; VOLUNTARY HEALTH AGENCIES; WORLD HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 11144357791     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archopht.122.4.615     Document Type: Review

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