Prevalence of Ocular Morbidities and its Socio-demographic correlates in an urban slumof western Uttar Pradesh, India.
Background: Ocular Morbidities with its economic and social consequences, represents an important public health problem in various parts of the world. Aims & Objective: 1. To find out the prevalence of Ocular Morbidities in relation to socio-demographic correlates in an Urban Slum of District Muzaff...
| Publicado en: | Indian Journal of Community Health Vol. 28; no. 2; pp. 174 - 179 |
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Indian Journal of Community Health
Apr-Jun2016
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