Trachoma, cataracts and uncorrected refractive error are still important contributors to visual morbidity in two remote indigenous communities of the Northern Territory, Australia

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 550-557

  Wright, Heathcote R ^a,b   Keeffe, Jill E ^a,b   Taylor, Hugh R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b VISION COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aboriginal; Cataract; Indigenous Australian; Refractive error; Trachoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BLINDNESS; CATARACT; COMMUNITY; CORNEA OPACITY; DESERT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; REFRACTION ERROR; SEASHORE; SPECTACLES; TRACHOMA; TRICHIASIS; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLINDNESS; CATARACT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; NORTHERN TERRITORY; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PREVALENCE; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; TRACHOMA; VISION, LOW; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS;

EID: 68349125341     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2009.02098.x     Document Type: Article

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