Impact of VISION 2020 on global blindness;L'impact de VISION 2020 sur la cécité dans le monde

Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 669-672

  Kuper, Hannah ^a   Foster, Allen ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLINDNESS; CATARACT; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; EDITORIAL; GLAUCOMA; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MEASLES; MEDICAL SOCIETY; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; REFRACTION ERROR; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; TRACHOMA; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

BLINDNESS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; WORLD HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 33846303561     PISSN: 00084182     EISSN: 17153360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/I06-080     Document Type: Editorial

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