Factors underlying different myopia prevalence between middle- and low-income provinces in China

Ophthalmology

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1060-1062

  Zhou, Zhongqiang ^a   Ma, Xiaochen ^b   Yi, Hongmei ^c   Pang, Xiaopeng ^d   Shi, Yaojiang ^e   Chen, Qianyun ^a   Meltzer, Mirjam E ^a   Price Sanchez, Carlos ^a   He, Mingguang ^a   Rozelle, Scott ^f   Morgan, Ian ^a   Congdon, Nathan ^a,g  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^d RENMIN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^e NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g ORBIS INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; MYOPIA; POPULATION DENSITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY; INCOME; POVERTY; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CHILD; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCOME; MALE; MYOPIA; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84928829171     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: 15494713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2014.12.019     Document Type: Article

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