Blindness and Visual Impairment: Global Perspective

作者: Sheila K. West

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-36324-5_2

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摘要: The last 30 years have seen a dramatic shift in global economies and rise the number wealth of so-called “middle-income” countries. Notwithstanding terrible toll HIV-AIDS, survival rates generally improved with it an increase proportion deaths due to chronic diseases as infectious decline (World Health Organization 2011). World (WHO) now has face rising epidemic illnesses like diabetes seriously faced epidemics infections cholera or yellow fever

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