Trends and implications for achieving VISION 2020 human resources for eye health targets in 16 countries of sub-Saharan Africa by the year 2020

Table 3 VISION 2020 target performance according to presence of cataract surgeon cadre in 2011

	Countries with ≤1 CS (n = 7)	Countries with >1 CS (n = 14)	P-value
Surgeons per million population
Regional ratio	3.2	1.1	0.0014
Country mean	3.8	2.7
Country median	3.3	1.9
Cataract surgery rate
Regional ratio	654	419	<0.0001
Country mean	854	561
Country median	738	504
Surgeries per surgeon
Regional ratio	174	186	0.4594
Country mean	243	230
Country median	252	244

CS, cataract surgeon. P-values in bold indicate a difference in proportions (risk ratios) significant at the 5% level.

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