Self-perceived barriers to eye care in a hard-to-reach population: The karachi marine fishing communities eye and general health survey

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1023-1032

  Ahmad, Khabir ^a,b   Zwi, Anthony B ^a   Tarantola, Daniel J M ^c   Chaudhry, Tanveer Anjum ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Access; Barriers; Equity; Ethnicity; Eye health; Fishing communities; Gender; Inequalities; Pakistan; Stigma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EYE CARE; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; FISHING; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAKISTAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; EYE DISEASES; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SURVEY; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EYE DISEASES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; PAKISTAN; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84922753219     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.14-16019     Document Type: Article

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