Prevalence of vision conditions in children in a very remote Australian community.
Scott A ReadShelley HopkinsAlexander A BlackSharon A BentleyJohn ScottJoanne M WoodPublished in: Clinical & experimental optometry (2022)
In this population of children in a very remote Australian region, up to 1 in 3 children had a vision condition, with many of these conditions being uncorrected and undetected. These findings highlight the important need for additional resources to be made available to very remote communities for the detection and correction of vision conditions in childhood.