Causes of blindness and vision impairment in 2020 and trends over 30 years, and prevalence of avoidable blindness in relation to VISION 2020: the Right to Sight: an analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study
GBD 2019 Blindness and Vision Impairment Collaborators, Vision Loss Expert Group of the Global Burden of Disease Study. · 2020
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The Global Burden of Disease 2019 Blindness and Vision Impairment Collaborators analyzed in 2020 the causes of blindness and poor vision worldwide, and how they changed over thirty years. Many causes of vision loss can be prevented or treated. At the same time, an aging world population is pushing demand for eye care upward.
The team estimated how common each cause was from 1990 onward, and what share of blindness could have been avoided. They also measured progress against the goals of a long running global initiative for the right to sight. Their findings show where treatment backlogs, such as untreated cataracts, remain largest, giving eye health planners a clear view of unmet need.
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| CREATOR | GBD 2019 Blindness and Vision Impairment Collaborators, Vision Loss Expert Group of the Global Burden of Disease Study. |
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| YEAR | 2020 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 96 KB |
| LICENSE | Creative Commons Attribution License |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | PubMed Central |