Prevalence and causes of vision loss in Latin America and the Caribbean: 1990-2010

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 619-628

  Leasher, Janet L ^a   Lansingh, Van ^b   Flaxman, Seth R ^c   Jonas, Jost B ^d   Keeffe, Jill ^e,f   Naidoo, Kovin ^g   Pesudovs, Konrad ^h   Price, Holly ⁱ   Silva, Juan Carlos ^j   White, Richard A ^k   Wong, Tien Y ^l   Resnikoff, Serge ^m   Taylor, Hugh R ⁿ   Bourne, Rupert R A ⁱ  

^a NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "Agostino Gemelli" IRCCS   (United States)

^c School of Computer Science and Heinz College Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

^d MEDICAL FACULTY MANNHEIM HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^f L V PRASAD EYE INSTITUTE   (India)

^g UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^h FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

ⁱ ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^j WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^k NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^l SINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^m BRIEN HOLDEN VISION INSTITUTE   (Australia)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH; VISION;

BLINDNESS; CARIBBEAN REGION; EYE DISEASES; HUMANS; LATIN AMERICA; PREVALENCE;

EID: 84898788729     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: 14682079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjophthalmol-2013-304013     Document Type: Article

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