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11804362

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-1-23
pubmed:abstractText
To eliminate avoidable blindness in India, appropriate national planning is necessary, which should be based on current and reliable data. A national survey done in 1986-89 reported that 1.5% of the Indian population (12 million people) was blind with a presenting visual acuity of < 6/60 in the better eye. The original goal of the National Programme for Control of Blindness was to reduce this prevalence to 0.3% by 2000. We have recently reported the prevalence of blindness in the population of Andhra Pradesh to be 1.66% with a presenting visual acuity of < 6/60 in the better eye as the sole criterion and 1.84% with a presenting visual acuity of < 6/60 orcentral visual field < 20 degrees in the better eye. We used these population-based data to estimate blindness in India in 2000 and project the possible scenarios of blindness through 2020 with different emphases of the blindness control policy in India.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0970-258X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
14
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
327-34
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-7-30
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
Estimation of blindness in India from 2000 through 2020: implications for the blindness control policy.
pubmed:affiliation
International Centre for Advancement of Rural Eye Care, LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India. dandona@asci.org.in
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't