Illness and injury presenting to a Norwegian travel insurance company's helpline

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 165-170

  Lerdal, Anners ^a   Harding, Thomas ^a,b   Kjølstad, Sverre ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH EASTERN NORWAY   (Norway)

^b UNITEC INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

^c Europeiske Travel Insurance co Oslo   (Norway)

Author keywords

Emergency assistance; Travel epidemiology; Travel insurance; Travellers

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EASTERN EUROPE; EMPORIATRICS; FATALITY; FEMALE; GENDER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INFECTION; INJURY; INSURANCE; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NORWAY; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATABASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INSURANCE CLAIM REVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; PREVALENCE; RISK MANAGEMENT; TRAVEL; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 34247124706     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2006.09.006     Document Type: Article

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