Editorial
Does blindness count? Disability weights for vision loss
Tasanee Braithwaite FRCOphth MPH,
Hugh Taylor FRANZCO,
Rupert Bourne FRCOphth MD,
Jill Keeffe PhD, Konrad Pesudovs PhD,
Tasanee Braithwaite FRCOphth MPH
Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, UK
Search for more papers by this authorHugh Taylor FRANZCO
Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Search for more papers by this authorRupert Bourne FRCOphth MD
Vision and Eye Research Unit, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK
Search for more papers by this authorKonrad Pesudovs PhD
NHMRC Centre for Clinical Eye Research, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Search for more papers by this authorTasanee Braithwaite FRCOphth MPH,
Hugh Taylor FRANZCO,
Rupert Bourne FRCOphth MD,
Jill Keeffe PhD, Konrad Pesudovs PhD,
Tasanee Braithwaite FRCOphth MPH
Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, UK
Search for more papers by this authorHugh Taylor FRANZCO
Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Search for more papers by this authorRupert Bourne FRCOphth MD
Vision and Eye Research Unit, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK
Search for more papers by this authorKonrad Pesudovs PhD
NHMRC Centre for Clinical Eye Research, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Search for more papers by this authorCompeting/conflicts of interest: None declared
Funding sources: None declared
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