Glaucoma awareness among people attending ophthalmic outreach services in Southwestern Ethiopia

BMC Ophthalmology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Tenkir, Addis ^a   Solomon, Berhan ^a   Deribew, Amare ^a  

^a JIMMA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNITY CARE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOLOGY;

EID: 77952704218     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2415-10-17     Document Type: Article

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