Global Efforts to Generate Evidence for Vision 2020

Ophthalmic Epidemiology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 237-238

  He, Mingguang ^a   Mathenge, Wanjiku ^b   Lewallen, Susan ^c   Courtright, Paul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Rwanda International Institute of Ophthalmology Dr Agarwal's Eye Hospital   (Rwanda)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BLINDNESS; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EYE CARE; EYE SURGERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LAOS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; POPULATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT PLANNING; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; MALE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION, LOW; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

BLINDNESS; FEMALE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH PLANNING ORGANIZATIONS; HUMANS; MALE; OCULAR PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; VISION, LOW; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84938406449     PISSN: 09286586     EISSN: 17445086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09286586.2015.1058958     Document Type: Editorial

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