An eye health strategy for Timor-Leste: The result of INGDO-government partnership and a consultative process [7]

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 394-

  Ramke, Jacqueline ^a,b   Ximenes, Duarte ^b   Williams, Carmel ^a   du Toit, Renee ^a   Palagyi, Anna ^a   Brian, Garry ^a  

^a Fred Hollows Foundation New Zealand   (New Zealand)

^b Ministry of Health   (Timor-Leste)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLINDNESS; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONSULTATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EYE CARE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LETTER; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REFRACTION ERROR; TIMOR-LESTE; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; INDONESIA; VISUAL DISORDER; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

BLINDNESS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; INDONESIA; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; VISION DISORDERS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 34447633369     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2007.01499.x     Document Type: Letter

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