Relationship between vision impairment and eye disease to vision-specific quality of life and function in rural India: The aravind comprehensive eye survey

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 2308-2312

  Nirmalan, Praveen K ^a,b   Tielsch, James M ^c,d   Katz, Joanne ^c,d   Thulasiraj, Ravilla D ^a,b   Krishnadas, Ramasamy ^a   Ramakrishnan, Rengappa ^a   Robin, Alan L ^c,e  

^a ARAVIND MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (India)

^b Lions Aravind Institute of Community Ophthalmology   (India)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CATARACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; EYE DISEASE; FEMALE; GENDER; GLAUCOMA; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INDIA; MALE; MORBIDITY; OPTIC DISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFRACTION ERROR; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; RURAL AREA; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT; PHYSIOLOGY; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADULT; AGED; CATARACT; EYE DISEASES; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; INDIA; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; RURAL POPULATION; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS;

EID: 23244432050     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.04-0830     Document Type: Article

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