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. 2006 Dec;19(60):68-9.

Rapid assessment of avoidable blindness

Hannah Kuper  1 , Sarah Polack, Hans Limburg
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Rapid assessment of avoidable blindness

Hannah Kuper et al. Community Eye Health. 2006 Dec.
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Measurement of visual acuity in a village. KENYA
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An example of compact segment sampling depicted on a map
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