Uncorrected refractive error and associated factors among primary school children in Debre Markos District, Northwest Ethiopia
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Uncorrected refractive error and associated factors among primary school children in Debre Markos District, Northwest Ethiopia
BACKGROUND Uncorrected Refractive Error is one of the leading cause amblyopia that exposes children to poor school performance. It refrain them from productive working lives resulting in severe economic and social loses in their latter adulthood lives. The objective of the study was to assess the prevalence of uncorrected refractive error and its associated factors among school children in Debr...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Ophthalmology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1471-2415
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2415-14-95