1.  WHO, Country Health Indicators: Jamaica (2003). 
2. UNDP, Human Development Report, Country Sheet: Jamaica (2003). 
3. Ibid.
4.  Ibid.
5. WHO, Country Health Indicators: Jamaica (2003). 
6. Ibid.
7. UNDP, Human Development Report, Country Sheet: Jamaica (2003). 
8. Ibid.
9. WHO, Country Health Indicators: Jamaica (2003). 
10. Ibid.
11. S. Resnikoff, D. Pascolini, D Eyta’ale, I. Kocur, R. Pararajasegaram, G. Pokharel, S. Mariotti, Bulletin of the World Health Organization (2004), “Global Data on Visual Impairment in the Year 2002” 82:11. This number was estimated based on population surveys from all countries in Americas region in the same mortality stratum as Jamaica.
12. 0.3% of total population.
13. S. Resnikoff, et al.
14. 1.7% of total population.
15. S. Resnikoff, et al.
16. Ibid.
17. C. Gilbert and A. Foster, Bulletin of the World Health Organization (2001), “Childhood Blindness in the Context of VISION 2020 – The Right to Sight,” 79:3.
18. VISION 2020, IAPB, WHO, State of the World’s Sight VISION 2020: The Right to Sight 1999-2005.
19. 17.1 ophthalmologists per million = 45 in a population of 2,651,000.