Global Prevalence of Blindness and Distance and Near Vision Impairment in 2020: progress towards the Vision 2020 targets and what the future holds

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Rupert Bourne · University of Cambridge

Jaimie D. Adelson · Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

Seth Flaxman · Imperial College London

Paul Svitil Briant · Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

Michele Bottone · Imperial College London

Theo Vos · Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

Kovin Naidoo

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Purpose : To estimate global and regional prevalence estimates for blindness and vision impairment (VI) that are important for development of public health policies.Methods : A systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted of population-based datasets relevant to global VI and blindness from 1980.Hierarchical models were tted to

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Retinal Imaging and Analysis Retinal and Optic Conditions

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Published in: Minerva Access (University of Melbourne)

Volume 61, Issue 7, pp. 2317-2317

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Global Prevalence of Blindness and Distance and Near Vision Impairment in 2020: progress towards the Vision 2020 targets and what the future holds

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