Vision loss in Australia

• 1 Population Health Division, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Melbourne, and Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Locked Bag 8, East Melbourne, VIC 8002
• 2 Centre for Eye Research, University of Melbourne, VIC.

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