Prevalence of blindness in Western Australia: a population study using capture and recapture techniques.

Abstract

Capture-recapture techniques can be used to determine the prevalence of blindness in whole populations.

The calculated prevalence of blindness suggested that up to 30% of legally blind people may not be receiving available financial support and up to 60% were not accessing rehabilitation services.

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Subjects

• Adolescent
• Adult
• Aged
• Aged, 80 and over
• Blindness
• Child
• Child, Preschool
• Female
• Humans
• Infant
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Models, Statistical
• National Health Programs
• Population Surveillance
• Prevalence
• Registries
• Retrospective Studies
• Western Australia
• Young Adult

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Authors

• Julie Crewe
• William H Morgan
• Nigel Morlet
• Antony Clark
• Geoffrey Lam
• Richard Parsons
• Aqif Mukhtar
• Jonathon Ng
• Margaret Crowley
• James Semmens

Publication date

2012-03-16

Journal

Journal topics

• Ophthalmology

Language

Eng.

Copyright

The British journal of ophthalmology

Centre for Population Health Research, Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute, Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth, Western Australia, Australia. j.crewe [at] curtin.edu.au

Release reference

Br J Ophthalmol. 2012 Apr;96(4):478-81

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• Books of Blindness
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• Books of Retrospective Studies
• Books of Western Australia