Use of ready-made spectacles to meet visual needs in a low-resource adult population

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 494-500

  Hookway, Larry Allen ^a   Fuhr, Patti ^b,c   Frazier, Marcela ^b  

^a NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c BIRMINGHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

blindness; functional vision; humanitarian eye care; presbyopia; readers; refractive error; spectacles; uncorrected refractive error; vision; vision correction; visual impairment

Indexed keywords

BLINDNESS; EYE CARE; PRESBYOPIA; READERS; REFRACTIVE ERROR; SPECTACLES; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

OPHTHALMOLOGY; SPHERES; VISION; VISION AIDS;

EYEGLASSES;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NICARAGUA; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; REFRACTION ERROR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPECTACLES; VISUAL ACUITY; REFRACTIVE ERRORS;

ADULT; EYEGLASSES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NICARAGUA; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; REFRACTION, OCULAR; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84876836809     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: 15389235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OPX.0b013e31828dedf6     Document Type: Review

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