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Visual Loss in Postconflict Southern Sudan
December 2006 | Volume 3 | Issue 12 | e450 Recent global estimates of the number of blind people put the total at 37–42 million [1,2]. This fi gure is predicted to rise to over 75 million by the year 2020 as a result of increases in world population and life expectancy, if current age-specifi c rates of blindness are allowed to persist [3]. The distribution of this global burden is, however, fa...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: PLoS Medicine
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1549-1676
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030450