by Deborah S. Roberts
Look around. Can you see clearly now? If not, can you pop on a pair of eyeglasses
to bring your surroundings into focus? Yes? Congratulations. That puts you ahead of 158 million of your fellow citizens worldwide.
The Bulletin of the World Health Organization
recently published the results of the first study to estimate the productivity loss from uncorrected refractive error—common vision problems that can easily be treated with eyeglasses, contact lenses, or laser surgery. But left untreated, these simple challenges can lead to virtual blindness for sufferers. And the researchers who conducted the study estimate these vision issues cost the world at least $269 billion in lost productivity each year.
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October 30th, 2009
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