Does blindness count? Disability weights for vision loss

Clin Exp Ophthalmol. 2017 Apr;45(3):217-220. doi: 10.1111/ceo.12874.

Authors

Tasanee Braithwaite¹, Hugh Taylor², Rupert Bourne³, Jill Keeffe⁴, Konrad Pesudovs⁵

Affiliations

¹ Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, UK.
² Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
³ Vision and Eye Research Unit, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK.
⁴ LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India.
⁵ NHMRC Centre for Clinical Eye Research, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.

PMID: 27862844
DOI: 10.1111/ceo.12874

No abstract available

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Blindness / classification*
Blindness / epidemiology
Disability Evaluation*
Global Health
Humans
Prevalence
Quality-Adjusted Life Years*
Visually Impaired Persons / classification*
Visually Impaired Persons / statistics & numerical data