Global health, global vision

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 911-912

  Sommer, Alfred ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; IVERMECTIN;

BLINDNESS; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HYGIENE; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; SANITATION; TRACHOMA; VISION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; XEROPHTHALMIA;

BLINDNESS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES; VISION; WORLD HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 2942538461     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archopht.122.6.911     Document Type: Editorial

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