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.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.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.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 |