Number of people blind or visually impaired by cataract worldwide and in world regions, 1990 to 2010

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 6762-6769

  Khairallah, Moncef ^a   Kahloun, Rim ^a   Bourne, Rupert ^b   Limburg, Hans ^c   Flaxman, Seth R ^d   Jonas, Jost B ^e   Keeffe, Jill ^f   Leasher, Janet ^g   Naidoo, Kovin ^h   Pesudovs, Konrad ⁱ   Price, Holly ^b   White, Richard A ^j   Wong, Tien Y ^k   Resnikoff, Serge ^l   Taylor, Hugh R ^m  

^a FATTOUMA BOURGUIBA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

^b ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Health Information Services   (Netherlands)

^d Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^g NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

ⁱ FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^j NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^k SINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^l UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^m UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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Author keywords

Blindness; Cataract; Epidemiology; Visual impairment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AGE; ARTICLE; ASIA; AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND; BLINDNESS; CARIBBEAN; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; EUROPE; EYE CARE; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; SOUTH ASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; AGED; COMPLICATION; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY; VISION, LOW; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLINDNESS; CATARACT; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; VISION, LOW; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84944754779     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.15-17201     Document Type: Article

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