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Causes of global blindness and global moderate-to-severe visual impairment in 2010.
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Schematization of total costs for a blind and visually impaired patient.
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These can be traced back to other types of direct healthcare costs that can be easily calculated (; Figure 2).
In this table and figure are represented the direct healthcare costs, the direct non-healthcare costs and the indirect costs for some European Countries per unit (for each blind and visually impaired patient). VI, visually impaired. Numerical data for UK have been converted from GBP to Euro.
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Here, we analyzed the annual costs of blindness and visual impairment reported in three western countries (from EU) in order to compare direct healthcare costs, direct non-healthcare costs, and indirect costs (Figure 3).