TY - JOUR
KW - Visual impairment
KW - Ophthalmology
KW - Neglected tropical diseases (NDTs)
KW - Low-income countries (LICs)
KW - Low vision
KW - Health Services Research
KW - Eye care
KW - Children
KW - Child health
KW - Blindness
AU - Malik ANJ
AU - Mafwiri M
AU - Gilbert CE
AB - <p>Globally, approximately 75% of blind children live in low-income countries (LICs). Almost half of blindness and low vision in LICs is due to avoidable causes such as corneal scarring from measles infection, vitamin A deficiency disorders, use of harmful traditional eye remedies, ophthalmia neonatorum and cataract.</p>

BT - Archives of disease in childhood
C1 - <p>http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28988214?dopt=Abstract</p>

DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2017-313536
J2 - Arch. Dis. Child.
LA - eng
N2 - <p>Globally, approximately 75% of blind children live in low-income countries (LICs). Almost half of blindness and low vision in LICs is due to avoidable causes such as corneal scarring from measles infection, vitamin A deficiency disorders, use of harmful traditional eye remedies, ophthalmia neonatorum and cataract.</p>

PY - 2017
SP - 1
EP - 5
T2 - Archives of disease in childhood
TI - Integrating primary eye care into global child health policies.
UR - http://adc.bmj.com/content/archdischild/early/2017/10/07/archdischild-2017-313536.full.pdf
SN - 1468-2044
ER -