Global data on visual impairment in the year 2002

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 82, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 844-851

  Resnikoff, Serge ^a   Pascolini, Donatella ^a   Etya'ale, Daniel ^a   Kocur, Ivo ^a   Pararajasegaram, Ramachandra ^a   Pokharel, Gopal P ^a   Mariotti, Silvio P ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Age factors; Blindness epidemiology; Blindness etiology; Cataract complications; Cost of illness; Glaucoma complications; Macular degeneration complications; Refractive errors complications; Sex factors; Vision, Low epidemiology; Vision, Low etiology

Indexed keywords

BLINDNESS; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; VISION;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CATARACT; DATA BASE; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; PREVALENCE; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRACHOMA; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CAUSALITY; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; VISION DISORDERS; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 9644283089     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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