Visual impairment and blindness
Causes of visual impairment and blindness in children in three ecological regions of Nepal: Nepal Pediatric Ocular Diseases Study
... of blindness and visual ...to blindness compared to the other two ...of blindness in the Terai region. The Nepal Blindness Survey of 1981 showed congeni- tal cataract and nutritional ...
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Rapid Report on Eye Care Service Use to Prevent Visual Impairment and Blindness in Rajasthan and Major Surrounding Indian States, 2012 to 2016
... reduce visual impairment and blindness that can be adapted for use in Rajasthan and the surrounding Indian ...measure visual impairment and blindness in the population of the six ...
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PREVALENCE AND ASSOCIATED FACTORS OF VISUAL IMPAIRMENT AND BLINDNESS AT UNIVERSITY OF GONDAR TEACHING HOSPITAL, GONDAR, NORTHWEST ETHIOPIA
... of visual impairment and ...of visual impairment and blindness was ...with visual impairment. Factors associated with blindness were cataract [AOR= ...of ...
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Prevalence and Causes of Visual Impairment and Blindness in a Rural Population in Sepang District, Selangor
... Prevalence and Causes of Visual Impairment and Blindness in a Rural Population in Sepang District, Selangor ORIGINAL ARTICLE Prevalence and Causes of Visual Impairment and Blindness in a Rural Populat[.] ...
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Prevalence and causes of visual impairment and blindness among school children in Muzaffarabad, Pakistan
... national blindness survey of Pakistan conducted in 1987-1988 revealed that the prevalence of blindness was ...of visual impairment in children with low vision found that the prevalence of ...
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Prevalence, causes, magnitude and risk factors of visual impairment and blindness in Sri Lanka
... Avoidable Blindness in Sri Lanka initiated a population-based national survey to estimate the prevalence, magnitude and major causes of blindness and visual impairment in adults aged 40 ...
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The Sri Lanka National Blindness, Visual Impairment and Disability Survey: rationale, objectives and detailed methodology
... Inter-observer agreements on measurement of visual acuity and ascertaining cause of blindness/ visual impairment were undertaken for the ophthalmologists and the optometrists. This was ...
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Prevalence and visual outcomes of cataract surgery and cataract surgical coverage in Sri Lanka: findings from the National Blindness and Visual Impairment Survey
... of blindness and visual impairment nationally, and data on cataract surgical coverage and outcomes are available from only one province ...of Blindness and Visual Impairment, ...
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Prevalence and types of refractive errors, and spectacle coverage in Sri Lankan adults: The Sri Lanka National survey of blindness and visual impairment
... all blindness and 52.9% of all moderate and severe visual impairment in 2010 ...distance visual acuity has been met, remains low, particularly in low and middle income countries, being only ...
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The Prevalence of Blindness, Visual Impairment and Cataract Surgery in Tuoketuo and Shangdu Counties, Inner Mongolia, China
... of blindness and visual impairment of people aged 50 years and ...examination. Visual acuity (VA) was tested for each eye of every ...of blindness in people aged 50+ in Tuoketuo of ...
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Blindness and visual impairment in retinitis pigmentosa: a Cameroonian hospital-based study
... Bilateral blindness and low vision was noted in 30% and ...bilateral blindness was ...Conclusion: Visual impairment is common and becomes even more severe with ...
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Blindness and Visual Impairment Amongst Rural Malays in Kuala Selangor, Selangor
... Blindness and Visual Impairment Amongst Rural clays in Kuala Selangor, Selangor Blindness and Visual Im Rural clays in Kuala Se irment Amongst langorlSelangor M Zainal, MS, L Masran, MS, A R Ropilah,[.] ...
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Prevalence and causes of blindness, visual impairment among different ethnical minority groups in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, China
... of visual impair- ...of visual impairment without ...the visual impair- ment/blindness diagnosed. Blindness was defined as VA worse than 3/60 in the better eye with available ...
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A Population-based survey of the prevalence and types of glaucoma in Nigeria: results from the Nigeria National Blindness and Visual Impairment Survey
... of blindness world- wide and the leading cause of irreversible blindness, ac- counting for 8 % of all blindness, affecting an estimated ...of blindness and visual impairment in ...
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PRACTICE REPORT. Accepted for publication in the. Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness
... Jacko, V. A., Cobo, H., Cobo, A., Fleming, R., & Moore, J. E. (2010). Mainstream Employment in Music Production for Individuals Who Are Visually Impaired: Development of a Model Training Program. Journal of Vision ...
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The Nigerian national blindness and visual impairment survey: Rationale, objectives and detailed methodology
... participants' visual impairment. All adult respondents then had visual field testing using a Humphrey Frequency Doubling Technology (FDT) visual field instrument (Carl Zeiss Meditec AG Jena ...
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Prevalence and causes of blindness, visual impairment, and cataract surgery in Timor Leste
... The sample size was calculated with an expected preva- lence of blindness of 4.5% (among people $50 years) with a tolerable β error of 20%, a non-compliance of 10%, and confidence levels of 95%. The design effect ...
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Impact of blindness, visual impairment and cataract surgery on quality of life and visual functioning among adults aged 40 years and above in Sri Lanka
... moderate visual impairment, visually impairing refractive errors and those operated for cataract in one or both eyes had comparable VF scores in most ...
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Risk factors for open-angle glaucoma in Nigeria: results from the Nigeria National Blindness and Visual Impairment Survey
... Nigeria Blindness Survey is that it was nationally representative and had a large sample size with adequate power to detect statistical associa- ...ally, visual field analysis was by FDT and participants ...
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What is the global burden of visual impairment?
... to blindness and less severe visual impairment is the sparseness of relevant pub- lished data from around the ...of visual impairment worldwide without inclusion of uncorrected ...
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