Global estimates of visual impairment: 2010

By D. Pascolini, S. Mariotti. British Journal of Ophthalmology, 2011

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Epidemiology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging

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Citations in the corpus

• Mobile Health Applications for the Most Prevalent Conditions by the World Health Organization: Review and Analysis (2013, background): “The Global Data on visual impairment 2010 [31] indicates 246 million people with low vision and 39 million blind, equaling a total of 285 million people with any type of visual impairment [32-34].”
• Causes of vision loss worldwide, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis. (2013, methodology): “8 The fi rst of these, done by Thylefors and colleagues in 1995, 5 estimated that 38 million people were blind, mainly due to cataract, trachoma, and glaucoma.”
• Digital technology, tele-medicine and artificial intelligence in ophthalmology: A global perspective (2020, methodology): “According to the WHO, uncorrected refractive errors account for 43% of all visual impairments (Snellen Acuity < 6/18-3/60) in 2010, causing 250 billion US dollars in loss of productivity (Pascolini and Mariotti, 2012; Smith et al., 2009; Fricke et al., 2012).”