Perspectives on primary eye care

We think of primary eye care (PEC), and any kind of primary health care (PHC), as a ‘frontline’ activity, providing care and identifying disease before it becomes a serious medical issue. However, as this course showed, even a cursory review of systems across the world reveals that there is no commo...

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Main Authors:	GVS Murthy, Usha Raman
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	International Centre for Eye Health (ICEH), London 2009-03-01
Series:	Community Eye Health Journal
Subjects:	Primary Health Care Referral & Consultation Delivery of Health Care Health Education Eye Diseases diagnosis Vision Screening
Online Access:	http://www.cehjournal.org/0953-6833/22/jceh_22_69_010.html

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Perspectives on primary eye care

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