Global cost of correcting vision impairment from uncorrected refractive error

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Tim Fricke · Brien Holden Vision Institute

BA Holden · UNSW Sydney

Donald A. Wilson · Brien Holden Vision Institute

Gerhard Schlenther · Brien Holden Vision Institute

KS Naidoo · Brien Holden Vision Institute

Serge Resnikoff · Brien Holden Vision Institute

Kevin D. Frick ·

Abstract

The cost of establishing and operating the educational and refractive care facilities required to deal with vision impairment resulting from URE was a small proportion of the global loss in productivity associated with that vision impairment.

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Ophthalmology and Visual Impairment Studies Ophthalmology and Visual Health Research Glaucoma and retinal disorders

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Published in: Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volume 90, Issue 10, pp. 728-738

DOI: 10.2471/blt.12.104034

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Global cost of correcting vision impairment from uncorrected refractive error

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