Addressing refractive error visual impairment: Volunteer organisations' alignment with Vision 2020 and public health principles

Clinical and Experimental Optometry

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 583-589

  Pearce, Matthew G ^a,b   Pearce, Nicole ^a  

^a Pacific Eye Institute   (New Zealand)

^b Fred Hollows Foundation New Zealand   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Public health; Refractive error; Vision 2020; Volunteer organisations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; REFRACTION ERROR; SPECTACLES; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISORDER;

EYEGLASSES; HUMANS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL ACUITY; VOLUNTARY HEALTH AGENCIES;

EID: 84868192332     PISSN: 08164622     EISSN: 14440938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1444-0938.2012.00710.x     Document Type: Article

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