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 Author: Salomão,Solange R. (author)
Other Authors: Mitsuhiro,Márcia R. K. H. (author), Belfort Jr,Rubens (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652009000300017
Country:Brazil
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