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. 2017;30(98):37-38.

Children's myopia: prevention and the role of school programmes

Catherine L Jan  1 , Clare Szalay Timbo  2 , Nathan Congdon  3
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Children's myopia: prevention and the role of school programmes

Catherine L Jan et al. Community Eye Health. 2017.
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Vision testing by a teacher in a rural classroom. CHINA
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