Eye health service access and utilization in the National Indigenous Eye Health Survey

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 598-603

  Turner, Angus W ^a,b   Xie, Jing ^b,c   Arnold, Anna Lena ^b,c   Dunn, Ross A ^c   Taylor, Hugh R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b VISION COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Eye; Research; Survey

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BLINDNESS; CATARACT EXTRACTION; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; EYE CARE; EYE REFRACTION; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; LASER SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OPTOMETRY; PREVALENCE; RANDOM SAMPLE; REFRACTION ERROR; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; CATARACT EXTRACTION; EYEGLASSES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OPTOMETRY; PREVALENCE; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; VISION, LOW;

EID: 79961185748     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2011.02529.x     Document Type: Article

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