Kovin Naidoo
University of KwaZulu-Natal
186 Papers
501 Citations
Kovin Naidoo is an academic researcher from University of KwaZulu-Natal. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Population. The author has an hindex of 49, co-authored 171 publications. Previous affiliations of Kovin Naidoo include Vision-Sciences, Inc. & International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness.
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Potential lost productivity resulting from the global burden of uncorrected refractive error
TL;DR: Even under the most conservative assumptions, the total estimated productivity loss, in $I, associated with visual impairment from URE is approximately a thousand times greater than the global number of cases.
Potential Lost Productivity Resulting from the Global Burden of Myopia: Systematic Review, Meta-analysis, and Modeling
Kovin Naidoo,Timothy R. Fricke,Kevin D. Frick,Monica Jong,Thomas Naduvilath,Serge Resnikoff,Padmaja Sankaridurg +6 more
TL;DR: The estimates suggest that the Southeast Asia, South Asia, and East Asia Global Burden of Disease regions bear the greatest potential burden as a proportion of their economic activity, whereas East Asia bears the greatest possible burden in absolute terms.
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Measuring progress and projecting attainment on the basis of past trends of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals in 188 countries: an analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
Nancy Fullman,Ryan M Barber,Amanuel Alemu Abajobir,Kalkidan Hassen Abate,Cristiana Abbafati,Kaja Abbas,Foad Abd-Allah,Rizwan Suliankatchi Abdulkader,Abdishakur M. Abdulle,Semaw Ferede Abera,Victor Aboyans,Laith J. Abu-Raddad,Niveen M E Abu-Rmeileh,Isaac Akinkunmi Adedeji,Olatunji O. Adetokunboh,Ashkan Afshin,Anurag Agrawal,Sutapa Agrawal,Aliasghar Ahmad Kiadaliri,Hamid Ahmadieh,Muktar Beshir Ahmed,Muktar Beshir Ahmed,Muktar Beshir Ahmed,Miloud Taki Eddine Aichour,Amani Nidhal Aichour,Ibtihel Aichour,Sneha Aiyar,Rufus Akinyemi,Rufus Akinyemi,Nadia Akseer,Ziyad Al-Aly,Khurshid Alam,Khurshid Alam,Khurshid Alam,Noore Alam,Deena Alasfoor,Kefyalew Addis Alene,Reza Alizadeh-Navaei,Reza Alizadeh-Navaei,Ala'a Alkerwi,François Alla,Peter Allebeck,Christine Allen,Rajaa Al-Raddadi,Ubai Alsharif,Khalid A Altirkawi,Nelson Alvis-Guzman,Azmeraw T. Amare,Erfan Amini,Walid Ammar,Hossein Ansari,Carl Abelardo T. Antonio,Carl Abelardo T. Antonio,Palwasha Anwari,Megha Arora,Al Artaman,Krishna Kumar Aryal,Hamid Asayesh,Solomon Weldegebreal Asgedom,Reza Assadi,Tesfay Mehari Atey,Sachin R Atre,Leticia Avila-Burgos,Euripide Frinel G Arthur Avokpaho,Ashish Awasthi,Peter Azzopardi,Peter Azzopardi,Umar Bacha,Alaa Badawi,Kalpana Balakrishnan,Marlena S Bannick,Aleksandra Barac,Aleksandra Barac,Suzanne Barker-Collo,Suzanne Barker-Collo,Till Bärnighausen,Till Bärnighausen,Lope H Barrero,Sanjay Basu,Katherine E. Battle,Bernhard T. Baune,Justin Beardsley,Neeraj Bedi,Ettore Beghi,Yannick Béjot,Michelle L. Bell,Derrick A Bennett,James R Bennett,Isabela M. Benseñor,Adugnaw Berhane,Derbew Fikadu Berhe,Eduardo Bernabé,Balem Demtsu Betsu,Mircea Beuran,Addisu Shunu Beyene,Neeraj Bhala,Anil Bhansali,Samir Bhatt,Zulfiqar A Bhutta,Burcu Kucuk Bicer,Hassan Haghparast Bidgoli,Boris Bikbov,Arebu Issa Bilal,Charles Birungi,Stan Biryukov,Habtamu Mellie Bizuayehu,Christopher D. Blosser,Dube Jara Boneya,Dipan Bose,Ibrahim R Bou-Orm,Michael Brauer,Nicholas J K Breitborde,Traolach S. Brugha,Lemma Negesa Bulto Bulto,Zahid A Butt,Lucero Cahuana-Hurtado,Ewan Cameron,Julio Cesar Campuzano,Hélène Carabin,Rosario Cárdenas,Juan Jesus Carrero,Austin Carter,Daniel C Casey,Carlos A Castañeda-Orjuela,Ruben Castro,Ferrán Catalá-López,Kelly Cercy,Hsing-Yi Chang,Jung-Chen Chang,Fiona J Charlson,Adrienne Chew,Vesper Hichilombwe Chisumpa,Abdulaal A Chitheer,Hanne Christensen,Devasahayam J. Christopher,Massimo Cirillo,Cyrus Cooper,Michael H. Criqui,Elizabeth A. Cromwell,John A. Crump,Lalit Dandona,Rakhi Dandona,Paul I. Dargan,José Neves,Dragos Virgil Davitoiu,Barbora de Courten,Hans De Steur,Barthelemy Kuate Defo,Louisa Degenhardt,Selina Deiparine,Kebede Deribe,Gabrielle deVeber,Eric L. Ding,Shirin Djalalinia,Huyen Phuc Do,Klara Dokova,David Teye Doku,Aaron van Donkelaar,E. Ray Dorsey,Tim Driscoll,Manisha Dubey,Bruce Bartholow Duncan,Beth E. Ebel,Hedyeh Ebrahimi,Ziad El-Khatib,Ahmad Ali Enayati,Aman Yesuf Endries,Sergey Petrovich Ermakov,Holly E. Erskine,Babak Eshrati,Sharareh Eskandarieh,Alireza Esteghamati,Kara Estep,Emerito Jose A. Faraon,Carla Sofia e Sa Farinha,André Faro,Farshad Farzadfar,Mir Sohail Fazeli,Valery L. Feigin,Andrea B. Feigl,Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad,João C. Fernandes,Alize J. Ferrari,Tesfaye Regassa Feyissa,Irina Filip,Florian Fischer,Christina Fitzmaurice,Abraham D. Flaxman,Nataliya Foigt,Kyle J Foreman,Tahvi Frank,Richard C. Franklin,Joseph Friedman,Joseph Frostad,Thomas Fürst,João M. Furtado,Emmanuela Gakidou,Alberto L Garcia-Basteiro,Tsegaye Tewelde Gebrehiwot,Johanna M. Geleijnse,Ayele Geleto,Bikila Lencha Gemechu,Peter W. Gething,Katherine B Gibney,Paramjit Gill,Richard F. Gillum,Ababi Zergaw Giref,Melkamu Dedefo Gishu,Giorgia Giussani,Scott D Glenn,William W Godwin,Ellen M Goldberg,Philimon Gona,Amador Goodridge,Sameer Vali Gopalani,Yevgeniy Goryakin,Max Griswold,Harish Chander Gugnani,Rajeev Gupta,Tanush Gupta,Vipin Gupta,Nima Hafezi-Nejad,Gessessew Bugssa Hailu,Randah R. Hamadeh,Mouhanad Hammami,Graeme J. Hankey,Hilda L Harb,Habtamu Abera Hareri,Mohammad Sadegh Hassanvand,Rasmus Havmoeller,Caitlin Hawley,Simon I. Hay,Jiawei He,Delia Hendrie,Nathaniel J Henry,Ileana Heredia-Pi,Hans W. Hoek,Mollie Holmberg,Nobuyuki Horita,H. Dean Hosgood,Sorin Hostiuc,Damian G Hoy,Mohamed Hsairi,Aung Soe Htet,John J Huang,Hsiang Huang,Chantal Huynh,Kim Moesgaard Iburg,Chad Ikeda,Manami Inoue,Caleb Mackay Salpeter Irvine,Kathryn H. Jacobsen,Nader Jahanmehr,Mihajlo Jakovljevic,Alejandra Jáuregui,Mehdi Javanbakht,Panniyammakal Jeemon,Vivekanand Jha,Denny John,Catherine O. Johnson,Sarah Charlotte Johnson,Jost B. Jonas,Mikk Jürisson,Zubair Kabir,Rajendra Kadel,Amaha Kahsay,Ritul Kamal,André Karch,Corine Karema,Amir Kasaeian,Nicholas J Kassebaum,Anshul Kastor,Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi,Norito Kawakami,Peter Njenga Keiyoro,Sefonias Getachew Kelbore,Laura Kemmer,Andre Pascal Kengne,Chandrasekharan Nair Kesavachandran,Yousef Khader,Ibrahim A Khalil,Ejaz Ahmad Khan,Young-Ho Khang,Ardeshir Khosravi,Jagdish Khubchandani,Christian Kieling,Jun Y Kim,Yun Jin Kim,Daniel Kim,Ruth W Kimokoti,Yohannes Kinfu,Adnan Kisa,Katarzyna Kissimova-Skarbek,Mika Kivimäki,Yoshihiro Kokubo,Jacek A Kopec,Soewarta Kosen,Parvaiz A Koul,Ai Koyanagi,Michael Kravchenko,Kristopher J Krohn,Xie Rachel Kulikoff,G Anil Kumar,Dharmesh Kumar Lal,Michael Kutz,Hmwe H Kyu,Ratilal Lalloo,Van C. Lansingh,Anders Larsson,Jeffrey V. Lazarus,Paul H. Lee,James Leigh,Janni Leung,Ricky Leung,Miriam Levi,Yongmei Li,Misgan Legesse Liben,Shai Linn,Patrick Liu,Shiwei Liu,Rakesh Lodha,Katharine J Looker,Alan D. Lopez,Stefan Lorkowski,Paulo A. Lotufo,Rafael Lozano,Tim C.D. Lucas,Raimundas Lunevicius,Mark T Mackay,Emilie R Maddison,Hassan Magdy Abd El Razek,Mohammed Magdy Abd El Razek,Marek Majdan,Reza Majdzadeh,Azeem Majeed,Reza Malekzadeh,Rajesh Malhotra,Deborah Carvalho Malta,Abdullah Al Mamun,Helena Manguerra,Lorenzo G. Mantovani,Tsegahun Manyazewal,Chabila C Mapoma,Guy B. Marks,Randall V. Martin,Jose Martinez-Raga,Francisco Rogerlândio Martins-Melo,Ira Martopullo,Manu Raj Mathur,Mohsen Mazidi,Colm McAlinden,Madeline McGaughey,John J. McGrath,Martin McKee,Suresh Mehata,Man Mohan Mehndiratta,Toni Meier,Kidanu Gebremariam Meles,Ziad A. Memish,Walter Mendoza,Melkamu Merid Mengesha,Mubarek Abera Mengistie,George A. Mensah,Gert B. M. Mensink,Seid Tiku Mereta,Tuomo J. Meretoja,Atte Meretoja,Haftay Berhane Mezgebe,Renata Micha,Anoushka Millear,Ted R. Miller,Shawn Minnig,Mojde Mirarefin,Erkin M. Mirrakhimov,Awoke Misganaw,Shiva Raj Mishra,Philip B. Mitchell,Karzan Abdulmuhsin Mohammad,Kedir Endris Mohammed,Shafiu Mohammed,Murali Mohan,Ali H. Mokdad,Sarah K Mollenkopf,Lorenzo Monasta,Julio Cesar Montañez Hernandez,Marcella Montico,Maziar Moradi-Lakeh,Paula Moraga,Lidia Morawska,Shane D. Morrison,Mark Moses,Cliff Mountjoy-Venning,Ulrich O Mueller,Kate Muller,Gudlavalleti V S Murthy,Kamarul Imran Musa,Mohsen Naghavi,Aliya Naheed,Kovin Naidoo,Vinay Nangia,Gopalakrishnan Natarajan,Ruxandra Irina Negoi,Ionut Negoi,Cuong Tat Nguyen,Quyen Nguyen,Trang Huyen Nguyen,Grant Nguyen,Minh Nguyen,Emma Nichols,Dina Nur Anggraini Ningrum,Marika Nomura,Vuong Minh Nong,Ole Frithjof Norheim,Jean Jacques Noubiap,Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer,Felix Akpojene Ogbo,In-Hwan Oh,Olanrewaju Oladimeji,Andrew T Olagunju,Tinuke O Olagunju,Pedro R. Olivares,Helen E Olsen,Bolajoko O. Olusanya,Jacob Olusegun Olusanya,Kanyin Ong,Eyal Oren,Alberto Ortiz,Mayowa O. Owolabi,Mahesh Pa,Adrian Pana,Basant Kumar Panda,Songhomitra Panda-Jonas,Christina Papachristou,Eun-Kee Park,George C Patton,Katherine R. Paulson,David M. Pereira,David Norberto Perico,Konrad Pesudovs,Max Petzold,Michael R. Phillips,Michael R. Phillips,David M. Pigott,Julian David Pillay,Christine Pinho,Michael A. Piradov,Farhad Pishgar,Richie G Poulton,Farshad Pourmalek,Mostafa Qorbani,Amir Radfar,Anwar Rafay,Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar,Mohammad Hifz Ur Rahman,Muhammad Aziz Rahman,Mahfuzar Rahman,Rajesh Kumar Rai,Sasa Rajsic,Usha Ram,Chhabi Lal Ranabhat,Puja C Rao,Salman Rawaf,Patrick Reidy,Robert C. Reiner,Nikolas Reinig,Marissa B Reitsma,Giuseppe Remuzzi,Andre M. N. Renzaho,Serge Resnikoff,Satar Rezaei,Maria Jesus Rios Blancas,Jacqueline Castillo Rivas,Kedir Teji Roba,David Rojas-Rueda,Mohammad Bagher Rokni,Gholamreza Roshandel,Gregory A. Roth,Ambuj Roy,Enrico Rubagotti,Nafis Sadat,Mahdi Safdarian,Sare Safi,Saeid Safiri,Rajesh Sagar,Joseph Salama,Joshua A. Salomon,Abdallah M. Samy,Juan Sanabria,Damian Santomauro,Itamar S. Santos,João Vasco Santos,Milena M Santric Milicevic,Benn Sartorius,Maheswar Satpathy,Monika Sawhney,Sonia Saxena,Mete Saylan,Maria Inês Schmidt,Ione Jayce Ceola Schneider,Matthew T. Schneider,Ben Schöttker,Aletta E. Schutte,David C. Schwebel,Falk Schwendicke,Soraya Seedat,Sadaf G. Sepanlou,Edson Serván-Mori,Katya Anne Shackelford,Amira Shaheen,Saeid Shahraz,Masood Ali Shaikh,Mansour Shamsipour,Morteza Shamsizadeh,Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam,Jayendra Sharma,Rajesh Sharma,Jun She,Peilin Shi,Kenji Shibuya,Chloe Shields,Girma Temam Shifa,Mekonnen Sisay Shiferaw,Mika Shigematsu,Min-Jeong Shin,Rahman Shiri,Reza Shirkoohi,Shreya Shirude,Kawkab Shishani,Haitham Shoman,Mark G. Shrime,Donald H. Silberberg,Diego Augusto Santos Silva,João Pedro Silva,Dayane Gabriele Alves Silveira,Jasvinder A. Singh,Virendra Singh,Dhirendra N Sinha,Eirini Skiadaresi,Erica Leigh Slepak,Amber Sligar,David L. Smith,Alison Smith,Mari Smith,Badr Hasan Sobaih,Eugene Sobngwi,Michael Soljak,Samir Soneji,Reed J D Sorensen,Luciano A. Sposato,Chandrashekhar T Sreeramareddy,Vinay Srinivasan,Jeffrey D Stanaway,Dan J. Stein,Caitlyn Steiner,S. Steinke,Mark A. Stokes,Bryan Strub,Mu'awiyyah Babale Sufiyan,Bruno F. Sunguya,Patrick J Sur,Soumya Swaminathan,Bryan L. Sykes,Dillon O Sylte,Cassandra Szoeke,Rafael Tabarés-Seisdedos,Santosh Kumar Tadakamadla,Nikhil Tandon,Tianchan Tao,Yihunie L Tarekegn,Mohammad Tavakkoli,Nuno Taveira,Teketo Kassaw Tegegne,Abdullah Sulieman Terkawi,Gizachew Assefa Tessema,JS Thakur,Kavumpurathu Raman Thankappan,Amanda G. Thrift,Tenaw Yimer Tiruye,Ruoyan Tobe-Gai,Roman Topor-Madry,Anna E. Torre,Miguel Tortajada,Bach Xuan Tran,Christopher Troeger,Thomas Truelsen,Derrick Tsoi,Kald Beshir Tuem,Emin Murat Tuzcu,Stefanos Tyrovolas,Kingsley N. Ukwaja,Chigozie Jesse Uneke,Rachel L Updike,Olalekan A. Uthman,Job F M van Boven,Santosh Varughese,Tommi Vasankari,Narayanaswamy Venketasubramanian,Ramesh Vidavalur,Francesco Saverio Violante,Sergey K Vladimirov,Vasiliy Victorovich Vlassov,Stein Emil Vollset,Theo Vos,Fiseha Wadilo,Tolassa Wakayo,Mitchell T. Wallin,Yuan-Pang Wang,Scott Weichenthal,Elisabete Weiderpass,Robert G. Weintraub,Daniel J. Weiss,Andrea Werdecker,Ronny Westerman,Harvey Whiteford,Tissa Wijeratne,Charles Shey Wiysonge,Belete Getahun Woldeyes,Charles D.A. Wolfe,Rachel Woodbrook,Denis Xavier,Gelin Xu,Simon Yadgir,Bereket Yakob Yota,Lijing L Yan,Yuichiro Yano,Mehdi Yaseri,Pengpeng Ye,Hassen Hamid Yimam,Paul S. F. Yip,Naohiro Yonemoto,Seok Jun Yoon,Marcel Yotebieng,Mustafa Z. Younis,Zoubida Zaidi,Maysaa El Sayed Zaki,Luis Zavala-Arciniega,Xueying Zhang,Ben Zipkin,Sanjay Zodpey,Stephen S Lim,Christopher J L Murray +640 more
TL;DR: GBD 2016 provides an updated and expanded evidence base on where the world currently stands in terms of the health-related SDGs, and substantially revised the universal health coverage (UHC) measure, which focuses on coverage of essential health services, to also represent personal health-care access and quality for several non-communicable diseases.
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Prevalence and causes of vision loss in high-income countries and in Eastern and Central Europe: 1990-2010
Rupert R A Bourne,Jost B. Jonas,Seth Flaxman,Jill E Keeffe,Jill E Keeffe,Janet L Leasher,Kovin Naidoo,Maurizio Battaglia Parodi,Konrad Pesudovs,Holly Price,Richard A. White,Tien Yin Wong,Serge Resnikoff,Hugh R. Taylor +13 more
TL;DR: In highly developed countries, prevalence of blindness and MSVI has been reduced by 50% and 38%, respectively, and the number of blind people and people with MSVI decreased by 17.4% and 12.6, respectively, even with the increasing number of older people in the population.
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Prevalence and causes of vision loss in high-income countries and in Eastern and Central Europe in 2015: magnitude, temporal trends and projections
Rupert R A Bourne,Jost B. Jonas,Alain M. Bron,Maria Vittoria Cicinelli,Aditi Das,Seth Flaxman,Seth Flaxman,David S Friedman,David S Friedman,Jill E Keeffe,John H. Kempen,Janet L Leasher,Hans Limburg,Kovin Naidoo,Konrad Pesudovs,Tunde Peto,Jinan Saadine,Alexander J Silvester,Nina Tahhan,Nina Tahhan,Nina Tahhan,Hugh R. Taylor,Rohit Varma,Tien Yin Wong,Serge Resnikoff,Serge Resnikoff,Serge Resnikoff +26 more
TL;DR: While continuing to advance control of cataract and AMD as the leading causes of blindness remains a high priority, overcoming barriers to uptake of refractive error services would address approximately half of the MSVI burden.