Bunce, C;
Wormald, R;
(2006)
Leading causes of certification for blindness and partial sight in England & Wales.
BMC Public Health
, 6
, Article 58. 10.1186/1471-2458-6-58.
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Abstract
Prevention of visual impairment is an international priority agreed at the World Health Assembly of 2002--yet many countries lack contemporary data about incidence and causes from which priorities for prevention, treatment and management can be identified.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Leading causes of certification for blindness and partial sight in England & Wales |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1186/1471-2458-6-58 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-6-58 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2006 Bunce and Wormald; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. PMCID: PMC1420283 |
| Keywords: | Adolescent, adult, age distribution, age of onset, aged, 80 and over, blindness, certification, child, preschool, disability evaluation, England, female, humans, incidence, infant, male, middle aged, ophthalmology, registries, sex distribution, vision, low, Wales |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Institute of Ophthalmology |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1320546 |
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