Is Myopia a Public Health Problem in India?

Myopia, a form of refractive error is a leading cause of visual disability throughout the world. In India uncorrected refractive errors are the most common cause of visual impairment and second major cause of avoidable blindness. Due to this the public health and economic impact of myopia is enormou...

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Autores principales: Saxena, Rohit, Vashist, Praveen, Menon, Vimla
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3714946/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23878419
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-0218.112436
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description Myopia, a form of refractive error is a leading cause of visual disability throughout the world. In India uncorrected refractive errors are the most common cause of visual impairment and second major cause of avoidable blindness. Due to this the public health and economic impact of myopia is enormous. Although school vision screening programme is very successful in many states, still a significant number of school going children remain unidentified and the unmet need for correcting refractive errors in children appears to be significant.
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spelling pubmed-37149462013-07-22 Is Myopia a Public Health Problem in India? Saxena, Rohit Vashist, Praveen Menon, Vimla Indian J Community Med View Point Myopia, a form of refractive error is a leading cause of visual disability throughout the world. In India uncorrected refractive errors are the most common cause of visual impairment and second major cause of avoidable blindness. Due to this the public health and economic impact of myopia is enormous. Although school vision screening programme is very successful in many states, still a significant number of school going children remain unidentified and the unmet need for correcting refractive errors in children appears to be significant. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3714946/ /pubmed/23878419 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-0218.112436 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Community Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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