Visual impairment and blindness: an overview of prevalence and causes in Brazil

Visual impairment and blindness: an overview of prevalence and causes in Brazil

Our purpose is to provide a summary overview of blindness and visual impairment on the context of recent Brazilian ocular epidemiologic studies. Synthesis of data from two cross-sectional population-based studies - the São Paulo Eye Study and the Refractive Error in School Children Study is presente...

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Main Authors: Solange R. Salomão, Márcia R. K. H. Mitsuhiro, Rubens Belfort Jr
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Academia Brasileira de Ciências 2009-09-01
Series:Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
Subjects:
cegueira
deficiência visual
prevalência
estudo populacional
epidemiologia ocular
blindness
visual impairment
prevalence
population-based
ocular epidemiology
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