Prevalence and causes of functional low vision and implications for services: The Pakistan national blindness and visual impairment survey

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 887-893

  Shah, Shaheen P ^a   Minto, Hasan ^b   Jadoon, Mohammad Z ^c   Bourne, Rupert R A ^a   Dineen, Brendan ^a   Gilbert, Clare E ^a   Khan, Mohammad D ^c  

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

^b SIGHTSAVERS   (United Kingdom)

^c Pakistan Institute of Community Ophthalmology   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LOW VISION; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PAKISTAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; URBAN AREA; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AMBLYOPIA; CORNEA OPACITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT; PREVALENCE; RETINA DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AMBLYOPIA; BLINDNESS; CORNEAL OPACITY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAKISTAN; PREVALENCE; RETINAL DISEASES; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DISTRIBUTION; URBAN POPULATION; VISION, LOW; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS;

EID: 41949133788     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.07-0646     Document Type: Article

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