Literature DB >> 12034678

Vision impairment in the Pacific region.

J E Keeffe1, K Konyama, H R Taylor.   

Abstract

The Western Pacific region is one of great diversity, containing the most populous country, China, and many small Pacific island countries. This review describes the prevalence of blindness and vision loss, illustrates the changing trends in the important causes of vision loss and blindness, and the stages of development of the delivery of eye care services across this region.

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Year:  2002        PMID： 12034678      PMCID： PMC1771168          DOI： 10.1136/bjo.86.6.605

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Br J Ophthalmol        ISSN： 0007-1161            Impact factor:   4.638


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