What is the global burden of visual impairment?

BMC Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Dandona, Lalit ^a   Dandona, Rakhi ^a  

^a ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF COLLEGE OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; REFRACTION ERROR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

COST OF ILLNESS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; VISION DISORDERS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 33645767953     PISSN: 17417015     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-4-6     Document Type: Article

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