Potential Lost Productivity Resulting from the Global Burden of Myopia: Systematic Review, Meta-analysis, and Modeling

We estimated the potential global economic productivity loss resulting from vision impairment (VI) and blindness as a result of uncorrected myopia and myopic macular degeneration (MMD) in 2015. Understanding the economic burden of VI associated with myopia is critical to addressing myopia as an incr...

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Published in:	Ophthalmology (Rochester, Minn.) Vol. 126; no. 3; p. 338
Main Authors:	Naidoo, Kovin S, Fricke, Timothy R, Frick, Kevin D, Jong, Monica, Naduvilath, Thomas J, Resnikoff, Serge, Sankaridurg, Padmaja
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States 01.03.2019
Subjects:	Adolescent Adult Aged Aged, 80 and over Cost of Illness Eyeglasses - economics Female Global Health - economics Humans Macular Degeneration - economics Macular Degeneration - therapy Male Middle Aged Models, Economic Myopia - economics Myopia - therapy Rural Population - statistics & numerical data Urban Population - statistics & numerical data Vision Disorders - economics Vision Disorders - therapy Visual Acuity Visually Impaired Persons - statistics & numerical data Work Performance - economics Young Adult
ISSN:	1549-4713, 1549-4713
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