Prevalence and risk factors for myopia among school children in Aba, Nigeria
African Vision and Eye Health, 2017 Aim: To study the prevalence of myopia among school children in Aba, Nigeria. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in public and private (primary and secondary) schools.
Uchenna C. Atowa +2 more
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Prevalence and Causes of Vision Loss in High-Income Countries and in Eastern and Central Europe in 2015: Magnitude, Temporal Trends, and Projections [PDF]
, 2018 Background: Within a surveillance of the prevalence and causes of vision impairment in high-income regions and Central/Eastern Europe, we update figures through 2015 and forecast expected values in 2020.
Bourne, Rupert R. A. +21 more
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Screening for Uncorrected Refractive Error Among Primary School Children In South-South Nigeria [PDF]
, 2013 A study on screening for uncorrected refractive error in primary school children has not been done in Bayelsa State, South-South Nigeria. This study aims to screen for uncorrected refractive error among primary school children in Bayelsa State and use ...
Opubiri, I, Pedro-Egbe, CN
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Effects of visual blur on microsaccades during visual exploration
Journal of Eye Movement Research, 2019 Microsaccades shift the image on the fovea and counteract visual fading. They also serve as an optimal sampling strategy while viewing complex visual scenes. Microsaccade production relies on the amount of retinal error or acuity demand of a visual task.
Sherry Tang +6 more
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The prevalence and causes of visual impairment among children in Kenya – the Kenya eye study
BMC Ophthalmology, 2020 Background Visual impairment is the partial or complete loss of vision in which the presenting visual acuity lie between 6/18-no perceptions of light. In Kenya, little attention has been directed towards children vision and causes of visual impairment ...
Shadrack Muma, Stephen Obonyo
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Refractive error study in young subjects: results from a rural area in Paraguay [PDF]
, 2017 AIM: To evaluate the distribution of refractive error in young subjects in a rural area of Paraguay in the context of an international cooperation campaign for the prevention of blindness.
Estrella Lumeras, Miguel Ángel +4 more
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Uncorrected refractive errors, presbyopia and spectacle coverage in Kamuli District, Uganda
African Vision and Eye Health, 2016 Background: Successful refractive error programmes arise from evidence that can be collected cost effectively and timely. Aim: To investigate the prevalence of uncorrected refractive error (URE), presbyopia and spectacle coverage in the Kamuli district,
Naomi Nsubuga +5 more
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Treatment coverage rates for refractive error in the National Eye Health survey. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 To present treatment coverage rates and risk factors associated with uncorrected refractive error in Australia.Thirty population clusters were randomly selected from all geographic remoteness strata in Australia to provide samples of 1738 Indigenous ...
Joshua Foreman +4 more
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Global uncorrected refractive error and presbyopia: the size of the problem. [PDF]
Community Eye HealthBastawrous A, Kassalow J, Watts E.
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Global cost of correcting vision impairment from uncorrected refractive error
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2012 OBJECTIVE: To estimate the global cost of establishing and operating the educational and refractive care facilities required to provide care to all individuals who currently have vision impairment resulting from uncorrected refractive error (URE ...
TR Fricke +6 more
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