Alfred Sommer

Alfred Sommer Alfred (Al) Sommer (born October 2, 1942) is a prominent American ophthalmologist and epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His research on vitamin A in the 1970s and 1980s revealed that dosing even mildly vitamin A deficient children with an inexpensive, large dose vitamin A capsule twice a year reduces child mortality by as much as 34 percent. The World Bank and the Copenhagen Consensus list vitamin A supplementation as one of the most cost-effective health interventions in the world. Provided by Wikipedia
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    Guía práctica para la detección, prevención y tratamiento de la xeroftalmia / by Sommer, Alfred

    Published 1978
    Book
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    Carencia de vitaminas A y sus consecuencias : guia práctica para la detención y el tratamiento / by Sommer, Alfred

    Published 1995
    Book
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    Field guide to the detection and control of xerophthalmia / by Sommer, Alfred

    Published 1982
    Book
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    Guia practica para la detección, prevención y tratamiento de la weroftalmia / by Sommer, Alfred

    Published 1978
    Book