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Websites
- Prevent Blindness America’s report. The Economic Impact of Vision Problems: The Toll of Major Adult Eye Disorders, Visual Impairment and Blindness on the U.S. Economy provides data on the individual and economic cost of eye disease and vision impairment. www.preventblindness.org
- Three publications detail costs of vision impairment in Australia: Clear Insight (costs of vision impairment), Investing in Sight (cost effectiveness of interventions) and Centrally Focussed on the costs of age-related macular degeneration. www.cera.org.au/publications
- Blindness, Poverty and Development the report by Vision 2020 on the impact of Vision 2020 on the UN Millenium Development Goals. www.v2020.org