Functional presbyopia in a rural Kenyan population: The unmet presbyopic need

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 245-251

  Sherwin, Justin C ^a,b   Keeffe, Jill E ^a,c   Kuper, Hannah ^d   Islam, F M Amirul ^a   Muller, Andreas ^e   Mathenge, Wanjiku ^d,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c VISION COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^d FRED HOLLOWS FOUNDATION   (Australia)

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

^f Eye Unit Rift Valley Provincial General Hospital   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Kenya; Presbyopia; Prevalence; Rural; Spectacle; Sub Saharan Africa

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HARVESTING; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; KENYA; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRESBYOPIA; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; READING; RURAL POPULATION; SPECTACLES; VISION TEST; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EYEGLASSES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; KENYA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESBYOPIA; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 42449135333     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2008.01711.x     Document Type: Article

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