Cost-effectiveness of screening and correcting refractive errors in school children in Africa, Asia, America and Europe.

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the costs and effects of alternative strategies for annual screening of school children for refractive errors, and the provision of spectacles, in different WHO sub-regions in Africa, Asia, America and Europe. METHODS: We developed a mathematical simulation model for uncorrect...

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Publicado en:Health Policy Vol. 89; no. 2; pp. 201 - 216
Autores principales: Baltussen R, Naus J, Limburg H
Formato: research Journal Article
Publicado: Elsevier B.V. Feb2009
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