[RESEARCH] Poverty and blindness in Pakistan: results from the Pakistan national blin

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[RESEARCH] Poverty and blindness in Pakistan: results from the Pakistan national blin - 17-12-2007, 06:42 PM

Objective To explore the association between blindness and deprivation in a nationally representative sample of adults in Pakistan.
Design Cross sectional population based survey.
Setting 221 rural and urban clusters selected randomly throughout Pakistan.
Participants Nationally representative sample of 16 507 adults aged 30 or above (95.3% response rate).
Main outcome measures Associations between visual impairment and poverty assessed by a cluster level deprivation index and a household level poverty indicator; prevalence and causes of blindness; measures of the rate of uptake and quality of eye care services.

Results 561 blind participants (

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