Do gender inequities exist in cataract surgical coverage? Meta-analysis in Latin America

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 458-466

  Carter, Marissa J ^a   Limburg, Hans ^b   Lansingh, Van C ^c,d   Silva, Juan C ^e   Resnikoff, Serge ^f  

^a Strategic Solutions Inc   (United States)

^b Health Information Services   (Netherlands)

^c FUNDACIÓN VISIÓN   (Paraguay)

^d Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "Agostino Gemelli" IRCCS   (Argentina)

^e PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Colombia)

^f Health and Development   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cataract surgical coverage; Gender; Latin America; Meta analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CATARACT EXTRACTION; EYE CARE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; META ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 82655170758     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2011.02722.x     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Silva JC, Bateman JB, Contreras F. Eye disease and care in Latin America and the Caribbean. Surv Ophthalmol 2002; 47: 267-74
2. Limburg H, Barria von-Bischhoffshausen F, Gomez P, Silva JC, Foster A. Review of recent surveys on blindness and visual impairment in Latin America. Br J Ophthalmol 2008; 92: 315-19
3. Limburg H, Silva JC, Foster A. Cataract in Latin America: findings from nine recent surveys. Rev Panam Salud Publica 2009; 25: 449-55
4. Lansingh VC, Resnikoff S, Tingley-Kelley K et al. Cataract surgery rates in Latin America: a four-year longitudinal study of 19 countries. Ophthalmic Epidemiol 2010; 17: 75-81
5. Limburg H, Foster A. Cataract surgical coverage: an indicator to measure the impact of cataract intervention programmes. Community Eye Health 1998; 11: 3-6
6. Limburg H, World Health Organization. Estimating cataract surgical services in national programs 2001. Accessed 7 Jan 2011. Available from: http://www.who.int/ncd/vision2020_actionplan/documents/RACSS/manuals/RACSSDOSManuaEngl.pdf
7. Kuper H, Polack S, Limburg H. Rapid assessment of avoidable blindness. Community Eye Health 2006; 19: 68-9
8. Lewallen S, Mousa A, Bassett K, Courtright P. Cataract surgical coverage remains lower in females. Br J Ophthalmol 2009; 93: 295-8
9. World Health Organization. Gender, women, and primary health care renewal. A discussion paper. July 2010. Accessed October 28, 2011. Available from: http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2010/ 9789241564038_eng.pdf
10. Pizzarello L, Abiose A, Ffytche T et al. VISION 2020: The right to sight: a global initiative to eliminate avoidable blindness. Arch Ophthalmol 2004; 122: 615-20
11. Ackland P. Contributing to achieve the goal of VISION 2020. Community Eye Health 2009; 22: 1-3
12. Pan American Health Organization. Plan of action for implementing the gender equality policy 2009-2014. PAHO Directing Council. Washington, DC, 28 September-2 October 2009 (PAHO CD 49/13)
13. Rao JN, Scott AJ. A simple method for the analysis of clustered binary data. Biometrics 1992; 48: 577-85
14. Thompson JR. The c2 test for data collected on eyes. Br J Ophthalmol 1993; 77: 115-17
15. Murdoch IE, Morris SS, Cousens SN. People and eyes: statistical approaches in ophthalmology. Br J Ophthalmol 1998; 82: 971-3
16. Higgins JP, Thompson SG, Deeks JJ, Altman DG. Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses. BMJ 2003; 327: 557-60
17. Duerksen R, Limburg H, Carron JE, Foster A. Cataract blindness in Paraguay-results of a national survey. Ophthalmic Epidemiol 2003; 10: 349-57
18. Eduardo Leite Arieta C, Nicolini Delgado AM, José NK et al. Refractive errors and cataract as causes of visual impairment in Brazil. Ophthalmic Epidemiol 2003; 10: 15-22
19. Pongo Aguila L, Carrión R, Luna W, Silva JC, Limburg H. [Cataract blindness in people 50 years old or older in a semirural area of Northern Peru.] Rev Panam Salud Publica 2005; 17: 387-93 (in Spanish)
20. Siso F, Esche G, Limburg H. Test nacional de catarata y servicios quirurgicos. Rev Oftalmol Venez 2005; 61: 112-39
21. Nano ME, Nano HD, Mugica JM, Silva JC, Montaña G, Limburg H. Rapid assessment of visual impairment due to cataract and cataract surgical services in urban Argentina. Ophthalmic Epidemiol 2006; 13: 191-7
22. Hernández Silva JR, Torres MR, Padilla González CM. Resultados del RACSS en Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba, 2005. Rev Cubana Oftalmol 2006; 19. Accessed Jan 2011. Available from: http://scieloprueba.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0864-21762006000100001&lng=es&nrm=iso
23. Beltranena F, Casasola K, Silva JC, Limburg H. Cataract blindness in 4 regions of Guatemala: results of a population-based survey. Ophthalmology 2007; 114: 1558-63
24. Barría von-Bischhoffshausen F, Silva JC, Limburg H, Muñoz DR. Análisis de la prevalencia de ceguera y sus causas, determinados mediante encuesta rápida de ceguera evitable (RAAB) en la VI región, Chile. Arch Chil Oftalmol 2007; 64: 69-77
25. Chang C, Cañizares R, Cuenca VJ et al. Investigación Rápida de la Ceguera Evitable. Estudio RAAB-Ecuador. Quito, Ecuador: RM Soluciones Graficás, 2010
26. Kuper H, Polack S, Limburg H. Encuesta Nacional de Ciegos RAAB Republica Dominicana. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: Amigo del Hogar, 2009
27. Courtright P, Metcalfe N, Hoechsmann A et al. Cataract surgical coverage and outcome of cataract surgery in a rural district in Malawi. Can J Ophthalmol 2004; 39: 25-30
28. Athanasiov PA, Casson RJ, Newland HS et al. Cataract surgical coverage and self-reported barriers to cataract surgery in a rural Myanmar population. Clin Experiment Ophthalmol 2008; 36: 521-5
29. Anjum KM, Qureshi MB, Khan MA et al. Cataract blindness and visual outcome of cataract surgery in a tribal area in Pakistan. Br J Ophthalmol 2006; 90: 135-8
30. Nirmalan PK, Padmavathi A, Thulasiraj RD. Sex inequalities in cataract blindness burden and surgical services in south India. Br J Ophthalmol 2003; 87: 847-9
31. Sapkota YD, Pokharel GP, Nirmalan PK, Dulal S, Maharjan IM, Prakash K. Prevalence of blindness and cataract surgery in Gandaki Zone, Nepal. Br J Ophthalmol 2006; 90: 411-16
32. Salomão SR, Soares FS, Berezovsky A et al. Prevalence and outcomes of cataract surgery in Brazil: the São Paulo eye study. Am J Ophthalmol 2009; 148: 199-206
33. Arieta CE, de Oliveira DF, Lupinacci AP et al. Cataract remains an important cause of blindness in Campinas, Brazil. Ophthalmic Epidemiol 2009; 16: 58-63
34. Lewallen S, Courtright P. Gender and use of cataract surgical services in developing countries. Bull World Health Organ 2002; 80: 300-3
35. Courtright P, Lewallen S. Why are we addressing gender issues in vision loss? Community Eye Health 2009; 22: 17-19
36. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Eye-care utilization among women aged > or =40 years with eye diseases-19 states, 2006-2008. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2010; 59: 588-91.