Governmental support for achieving “VISION 2020: the Right to Sight” in Iran: the cataract surgical rates

BMC Ophthalmology

Table 1 Number of cataract surgeries and cataract surgical rate (CSR) in Iran before and after Health Transformation Plan (HTP) in totally and according to economic quartiles

		Before HTP		After HTP
		2012	2013	2015	2016	Before HTP^a	After HTP^b
Total	Number of cataract surgeries	462,102	487,496	535,856	597,802	474,799	566,829
	Population (1000)	76,075	77,016	78,940	79,926	76,546	79,433
	CSR per one million	6074	6330	6788	7479	6202	7134
	95% Confidence Interval / high	6063	6319	6778	7470	6192	7126
	95% Confidence Interval / low	6085	6341	6798	7489	6214	7146
Economic quartiles
First	Number of cataract surgeries	39,713	42,084	57,687	64,457	40,899	61,072
	Population (1000)	9970	10,015	10,109	10,158	9993	10,134
	CSR per one million	3983	4202	5706	6345	4093	6026
Second	Number of cataract surgeries	50,925	56,311	63,442	75,472	53,618	69,457
	Population (1000)	14,530	14,694	15,024	15,193	14,612	15,109
	CSR per one million	3505	3832	4223	4968	3669	4595
Third	Number of cataract surgeries	131,267	134,777	134,543	144,927	133,022	139,735
	Population (1000)	22,448	22,762	23,404	23,732	22,605	23,568
	CSR per one million	5848	5921	5749	6107	5884	5928
Forth	Number of cataract surgeries	240,199	254,331	280,180	312,950	247,265	296,565
	Population (1000)	29,127	29,545	30,403	30,843	29,336	30,623
	CSR per one million	8247	8608	9216	10,147	8427	9681

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