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The aim of this study was to examine the association between visual impairment from cataract and poverty in adults in Kenya, Bangladesh, and the Philippines. A population-based case–control study was conducted in three countries during 2005–2006. Cases were persons aged 50 y or...
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This paper focuses on Senegal’s second poverty reduction strategy paper (PRSP–II). It summarizes the results of the participatory PRSP review process prior to final validation and adoption by the government. As an economic and social policy document for growth and poverty reduction...
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upon some of Saramago's literary achievements. Findings – Black blindness, e.g. the absence of vision through an extreme …Purpose – Seeing, one might say, is everything between black blindness and white blindness: between not seeing because … that which produces vision (usually the sun or God). Within organizational literature, organizations have often been linked …
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infant blindness prevention set up to serve rural India. Design/methodology/approach – The paper describes the two‐plus years … initiative paved the way for the first public‐private partnership in infant blindness prevention in India which is poised for a …
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Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine the health and social care information needs of people with a visual impairment; to identify the health and social care information sources used by visually‐impaired people seeking information; to identify differences in the information needs...
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We consider a dose-finding trial in phase IIB of drug development. For choosing an appropriate design for this trial the specification of two points is critical: an appropriate model for describing the dose-effect relationship and the specification of the aims of the trial (objectives), which...
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Introduction: Common approaches in cost-effectiveness analyses do not adjust for confounders. In nonrandomized studies this can result in biased results. Parametric models such as regression models are commonly applied to adjust for confounding, but there are several issues which need to be...
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Abstract A common problem of interest within a randomized clinical trial is the evaluation of an inexpensive response endpoint as a valid surrogate endpoint for a clinical endpoint, where a chief purpose of a valid surrogate is to provide a way to make correct inferences on clinical treatment...
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This research introduces methods for nonparametric testing of weighted integrated survival differences in the context of paired censored survival designs. The current work extends work done by Pepe and Fleming (1989, Biometrics 45 , 497–507), which considered similar test statistics directed...
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