Visual impairment and blindness: An overview of prevalence and causes in Brazil

Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 539-549

  Salomão, Solange R ^a   Mitsuhiro, Márcia R K H ^a   Belfort Jr , Rubens ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Blindness; Ocular epidemiology; Population based; Prevalence; Visual impairment

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349336952     PISSN: 00013765     EISSN: 16782690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0001-37652009000300017     Document Type: Article

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