[Eye care services evaluation in a low-income urban population of São Paulo City--Brazil].

Purpose: To evaluate eye care services from the user's perspective in a low income population from the east zone of the city of São Paulo--Brazil.

Methods: A household survey was performed using cluster sampling in three low income districts of the city of São Paulo--Brazil. From July/2004 to January/2005, 1055 interviews with an adult household representative were carried and an eye care system responsiveness questionnaire was administered through individual interview.

Prevalence of visual impairment, blindness, ocular disorders and cataract surgery outcomes in low-income elderly from a metropolitan region of São Paulo--Brazil.

Purpose: To determine prevalence and causes of visual impairment, blindness, ocular disorders and cataract surgery outcomes in a low-income elderly population from a metropolitan area in the city of São Paulo, Brazil.

Methods: Observational study where 801 individuals of 60 years and older underwent presented and best corrected visual acuity measurements as well as ophthalmologic examination. Definition of blindness and visual impairment followed studies conducted in Nepal, China and India.

[Comparison between self-reported quality of vision and visual acuity in a low-income elderly population in the city of São Paulo].

Purpose: Self-reported visual function questionnaires are becoming more common in clinical research. The purpose of this study is to evaluate and correlate self-reported visual function assessed by a visual function questionnaire with visual acuity.

Methods: 806 patients aged 60 years and older, who were included in an epidemiological eye study, were interviewed and present visual acuity for near and distance was taken; they also answered a visual function questionnaire.