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Screening for Refractive Error and Fitting with Spectacles in Rural and Urban India: Cost-Effectiveness

  • The purpose of this study was to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of screening for refractive error and fitting with glasses in India.

  • A decision tree was used to measure the cost-effectiveness of school-based screening (SBS) and primary eye care (PEC) settings in urban and rural India.

  • Urban SBS was highly cost-effective when compared with no screening.

  • Rural SBS was moderately cost-effective for ages 5-15 and highly cost-effective for ages 7-15.

  • The cost-effectiveness between SBS and PEC depends on the choice of targeted age group and area of the intervention.

Publication date

July 11, 2016

Publication

Ophthalmic Epidemiology

Authors

K.D. Frick, L. Riva-Clement and M.B. Shankar
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