Gender and blindness: a meta-analysis of population-based prevalence surveys
- 1 January 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers in Ophthalmic Epidemiology
- Vol. 8 (1), 39-56
- https://doi.org/10.1076/opep.8.1.39.1540
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Many individual surveys of blindness have reported slightly higher rates of blindness for women. In order to gain a continent-by-continent and global sense of the burden of blindness by...Keywords
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