Health disparities among travelers visiting friends and abroad

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 67-72

  Angell, Sonia Y ^a   Cetron, Martin S ^b  

^a NY City Dept of Hlth/Mental Hyg   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAMILY; FRIEND; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS B; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; IMMUNIZATION; INFECTION CONTROL; MALARIA; POPULATION RISK; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRAVEL; TUBERCULOSIS; TYPHOID FEVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 11244318303     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-142-1-200501040-00013     Document Type: Review

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