US$244 billion lost annually because people don't have spectacles to correct myopia

(Brien Holden Vision Institute) Vision impairment caused by uncorrected myopia cost the global economy an estimated US$244 billion in lost productivity in 2015, according to a new study published in the scientific journal Ophthalmology.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news