Estimating the global cost of vision impairment and its major causes: protocol for a systematic review

• Nathan Congdon,
• Thomas Butt,
• Peng Tee Khaw,
• Andrew Bastawrous,
• Tasanee Braithwaite,
• Rupert R A Bourne,
• Matthew J Burton,
• Serge Resnikoff,
• Kevin Frick,
• Hugh Taylor,
• Ana Patricia Marques,
• Justine H Zhang,
• Hannah B Faal,
• Iain Jones,
• Marty Jovic,
• Allyala Nandakumar

Affiliations

Nathan Congdon

1State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Thomas Butt

National School of Development, Peking University, Beijing, China

Peng Tee Khaw

6 Glaucoma, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at Moorfields Eye Hospital and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London, UK

Andrew Bastawrous

International Centre for Eye Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK

Tasanee Braithwaite

9 School of Medicine, Vision and Eye Research Unit (VERU), Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford, UK

Rupert R A Bourne

Vision & Eye Research Unit, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK

Matthew J Burton

International Centre for Eye Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK

Serge Resnikoff

Brien Holden Vision Institute, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Kevin Frick

Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School - Baltimore Campus, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Hugh Taylor

University of Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Ana Patricia Marques

3 Departamento de Políticas e Gestão dos Sistemas de Saúde, Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Justine H Zhang

International Centre for Eye Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Hannah B Faal

Department of Ophthalmology, University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria

Iain Jones

Sightsavers, Haywards Heath, UK

Marty Jovic

PricewaterhouseCoopers, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Allyala Nandakumar

Brandeis University Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA