Open AccessBlindness and Visual Impairment Profile and Rapid Assessment of Avoidable Blindness in South East Asia: Analysis of New Data. 2017 APAO Holmes Lecture
Author(s) -
Taraprasad Das
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
asia-pacific journal of ophthalmology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2162-0989
DOI - 10.22608/apo.2017425
Subject(s) - blindness , visual impairment , east asia , optometry , medicine , psychology , geography , psychiatry , archaeology , china
The International Agency for Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) South East Asia region (SEAR) that consists of 11 countries contains 26% of the world's population (1,761,000,000). In this region 12 million are blind and 78.5 million are visually impaired. This amounts to 30% of global blindness and 32% of global visual impairment.