Integrating primary eye care into global child health policies

dc.contributor.author	Gilbert, Clare
dc.date.accessioned	2018-05-24T10:29:10Z
dc.date.available	2018-05-24T10:29:10Z
dc.date.issued	2017-10-07
dc.identifier.citation	Malik, A.N.J., Mafwiri, M. and Gilbert, C., 2017. Integrating primary eye care into global child health policies. Archives of disease in childhood, pp.archdischild-2017.	en_US
dc.identifier.other	10.1136/archdischild-2017-313536
dc.identifier.uri	http://dpsvr.muhas.ac.tz:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/2139
dc.description.abstract	Globally, approximately 75% of blind children live in low-income countries (LICs). Almost half of blindness and low vision in LICs is due to avoidable causes such as corneal scarring from measles infection, vitamin. A deficiency disorders, use of harmful traditional eye remedies, ophthalmia neonatorum and cataract.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	British Medical Journal	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	;2017-313536
dc.subject	child health policies	en_US
dc.title	Integrating primary eye care into global child health policies	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US