Little evidence for an epidemic of myopia in Australian primary school children over the last 30 years

BMC Ophthalmology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Junghans, Barbara M ^a   Crewther, Sheila G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION PROGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MYOPIA; REFRACTION ERROR; RETINOSCOPY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX RATIO; URBAN POPULATION; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MYOPIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; PREVALENCE; RETINOSCOPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 15244338845     PISSN: 14712415     EISSN: 14712415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2415-5-1     Document Type: Article

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