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          As one article in a four-part PLoS Medicine series on water and sanitation, David Trouba and colleagues discuss the importance of improved sanitation to health and the role that the health sector can play in its advocacy.

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          Global data on visual impairment in the year 2002.

          Serge Resnikoff, Donatella Pascolini, Daniel Etya'ale … (2004)
          This paper presents estimates of the prevalence of visual impairment and its causes in 2002, based on the best available evidence derived from recent studies. Estimates were determined from data on low vision and blindness as defined in the International statistical classification of diseases, injuries and causes of death, 10th revision. The number of people with visual impairment worldwide in 2002 was in excess of 161 million, of whom about 37 million were blind. The burden of visual impairment is not distributed uniformly throughout the world: the least developed regions carry the largest share. Visual impairment is also unequally distributed across age groups, being largely confined to adults 50 years of age and older. A distribution imbalance is also found with regard to gender throughout the world: females have a significantly higher risk of having visual impairment than males. Notwithstanding the progress in surgical intervention that has been made in many countries over the last few decades, cataract remains the leading cause of visual impairment in all regions of the world, except in the most developed countries. Other major causes of visual impairment are, in order of importance, glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and trachoma.
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            Control of neglected tropical diseases.

            Peter Hotez, David H. Molyneux, Alan Fenwick … (2007)
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              Soil-transmitted helminth infections: updating the global picture.

              Simon J. Brooker, Peter Hotez, R Fuente … (2003)
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                Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS Med
                Journal ID (publisher-id): PLoS
                Journal ID (pmc): plosmed
                Title: PLoS Medicine
                Publisher: Public Library of Science (San Francisco, USA )
                ISSN (Print): 1549-1277
                ISSN (Electronic): 1549-1676
                Publication date Collection: November 2010
                Publication date (Print): November 2010
                Publication date (Electronic): 16 November 2010
                Volume: 7
                Issue: 11
                Electronic Location Identifier: e1000363
                Affiliations
                [1 ]School of Civil Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
                [2 ]Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council, Geneva, Switzerland
                [3 ]Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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                ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: DM JL BS DT. Agree with the manuscript's results and conclusions: DM JL BS DT. Wrote the first draft of the paper: DM. Contributed to the writing of the paper: JL BS DT. The article was jointly written by all the named authors.

                The Policy Forum allows health policy makers around the world to discuss challenges and opportunities for improving health care in their societies.

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                Publisher ID: 10-PLME-PF-4963R2
                DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000363
                PMC ID: 2981586
                PubMed ID: 21125018
                SO-VID: 9b1b5d36-2dc0-41c5-9980-5716f703314a
                Copyright © Mara et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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                Subject: Policy Forum
                Subject: Evidence-Based Healthcare
                Subject: Infectious Diseases
                Subject: Public Health and Epidemiology
                Subject: Women's Health

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