Prevalence, causes, and risk factors for functional low vision in nigeria: Results from the national survey of blindness and visual impairment

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 6714-6719

  Entekume, Gabriel ^a   Patel, Jaymini ^b   Sivasubramaniam, Selvaraj ^c   Gilbert, Clare E ^c   Ezelum, Christian C ^d   Murthy, Gudlavalleti V S ^c   Rabiu Mansur, M ^d  

^a Vision Health Services   (Nigeria)

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

^c Ministry of Health   (Nigeria)

^d National Eye Centre   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A SCAN; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CORNEA OPACITY; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; MALE; MARRIAGE; NIGERIA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL STATUS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISORDER; AGE DISTRIBUTION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; BLINDNESS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NIGERIA; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; VISION, LOW;

EID: 80054789399     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.11-7293     Document Type: Article

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