TY - JOUR ID - discovery1320546 N2 - Prevention of visual impairment is an international priority agreed at the World Health Assembly of 2002--yet many countries lack contemporary data about incidence and causes from which priorities for prevention, treatment and management can be identified. SN - 1471-2458 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-6-58 JF - BMC Public Health KW - Adolescent KW - adult KW - age distribution KW - age of onset KW - aged KW - 80 and over KW - blindness KW - certification KW - child KW - preschool KW - disability evaluation KW - England KW - female KW - humans KW - incidence KW - infant KW - male KW - middle aged KW - ophthalmology KW - registries KW - sex distribution KW - vision KW - low KW - Wales A1 - Bunce, C A1 - Wormald, R TI - Leading causes of certification for blindness and partial sight in England & Wales AV - public VL - 6 Y1 - 2006/03/08/ N1 - © 2006 Bunce and Wormald; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. PMCID: PMC1420283 ER -