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Vision impairment costs billions lost in productivity
Date:6/2/2009

oral obligation, this research indicates that there is a tremendous loss of human potential and lost productivity associated with avoidable blindness and impaired vision due to uncorrected refractive error," said Frick.

"Potential lost productivity resulting from the global burden of uncorrected refractive error" was written by TST Smith, KD Frick, BA Holden, TR Fricke and KS Naidoo.


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Contact: Natalie Wood-Wright
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Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
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