Vision impairment costs billions lost in productivity
Tuesday, June 2, 2009 - 10:42
in Health & Medicine
Corrected vision impairment could prevent billions of dollars in lost productivity annually, according to a study by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of School of Public Health, the International Centre for Eyecare Education, the University of New South Wales and the African Vision Research Institute.
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