Prevalence and causes of vision loss in South-east Asia and Oceania in 2015: magnitude, temporal trends and projections.

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To assess prevalence and causes of vision impairment in South-east Asia and Oceania regions from 1990 to 2015 and to forecast the figures for 2020.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Br J Ophthalmol

Title: The British journal of ophthalmology

Publisher: BMJ

ISSN (Electronic): 1468-2079

ISSN (Print): 0007-1161

Publication date (Electronic): July 2019

Volume: 103

Issue: 7

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[1 ] L V Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India jillkeeffe@lvpei.org.

[2 ] University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.

[3 ] Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

[4 ] San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.

[5 ] Health Education Yorkshire, London, UK.

[6 ] Department of Mathematics and Data Science Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK.

[7 ] Department of Ophthalmology, Universitätsmedizin, Mannheim, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany.

[8 ] Immunology and Uveitis Service, Department of Ophthalmology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

[9 ] Discovery Eye Center, Leawood, Kansas, USA.

[10 ] MyungSung Christian Medical Center, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

[11 ] Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.

[12 ] Health Information Services, Grootebroek, The Netherlands.

[13 ] African Vision Research Institute, University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa & Brien Holden Vision Institute, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

[14 ] St Pauls Eye Unit, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Prescot Street, Liverpool, UK.

[15 ] Department of Information, Evidence and Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.

[16 ] Brien Holden Vision Institute, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

[17 ] School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

[18 ] Singapore Eye Research Institute, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.

[19 ] Vision & Eye Research Unit, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK.

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Publisher Item ID: bjophthalmol-2018-311946

DOI: 10.1136/bjophthalmol-2018-311946

PubMed ID: 30209084

SO-VID: 7babfac6-03d3-468e-bb41-b96b45e35a7a

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Keywords: blindness,epidemiology,global burden of disease study,vision impairment,vision loss expert group

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Keywords: blindness, epidemiology, global burden of disease study, vision impairment, vision loss expert group

Prevalence and causes of vision loss in South-east Asia and Oceania in 2015: magnitude, temporal trends and projections.

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