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...
| Published in: | Health Policy Vol. 89; no. 2; pp. 201 - 216 |
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| Main Authors: | , , |
| Format: | research Journal Article |
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Elsevier B.V.
Feb2009
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