Blindness and eye disease in Cambodia

Ophthalmic Epidemiology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 360-366

  Rutzen, Allan R ^a,b   Ellish, Nancy J ^b   Schwab, Larry ^c   Graham, Peter J ^d   Pizzarello, Louis D ^a   Hemady, Ramzi K ^b   Maldonado, Miguel J ^e   Yutho, Uch ^f   Seng, To C ^f   Meng, Ngy ^f   Chamroen, So ^f   Seiha, Do ^f   Woleng, Sylvia ^f  

^a HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c International Eye Foundation USA   (United States)

^d ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^f Preah Ang Duong Eye Hospital   (Cambodia)

Author keywords

Blindness; Cambodia; Low vision; Survey

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APHAKIA; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; BLINDNESS; CAMBODIA; CATARACT; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA INJURY; EYE CARE; EYE DISEASE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY; PATHOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; TRACHOMA; UNILATERAL BLINDNESS; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; BLINDNESS; CAMBODIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EYE DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DISTRIBUTION; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 37649025684     PISSN: 09286586     EISSN: 17445086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01658100701436033     Document Type: Article

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