The Pakistan National Blindness and Visual Impairment Survey - Research design, eye examination methodology and results of the pilot study

Ophthalmic Epidemiology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 321-333

  Bourne, Rupert ^a,b   Dineen, Brendan ^a   Jadoon, Zahid ^c   Lee, Pak S ^b   Khan, Aman ^c   Johnson, Gordon J ^a   Foster, Allen ^a   Khan, Daud ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Pakistan Institute of Community Ophthalmology   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Blindness; Cataract; Low vision; Pakistan National Blindness and Visual Impairment Survey; Pilot study; Underdeveloped countries

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; APHAKIA; BLINDNESS; CATARACT; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; OPTIC DISK; PAKISTAN; PILOT STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; REVIEW; SEX RATIO; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; BLINDNESS; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAKISTAN; PILOT PROJECTS; PREVALENCE; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DISTRIBUTION; URBAN POPULATION; VISION, LOW; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS;

EID: 28244473578     PISSN: 09286586     EISSN: 17445086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09286580500230948     Document Type: Review

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