Spanish travelers to high-risk areas in the tropics: Airport survey of travel health knowledge, attitudes, and practices in vaccination and malaria prevention

Journal of Travel Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 297-305

  Lopez Velez, Rogelio ^a   Bayas, Jose Maria ^b  

^a HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ATOVAQUONE PLUS PROGUANIL; CHLOROQUINE; CHLOROQUINE PLUS PROGUANIL; DOXYCYCLINE; MALARIA VACCINE; MEFLOQUINE;

ADULT; AFRICA; AIRPORT; ARTICLE; ASIA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPHTHERIA; EMPORIATRICS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEPATITIS A; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INDIAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MALE; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SPAIN; TETANUS; TRAVEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TROPICS; TYPHOID FEVER; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; YELLOW FEVER;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIMALARIALS; CHEMOPREVENTION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALARIA; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; RISK-TAKING; SPAIN; TRAVEL; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 34648831456     PISSN: 11951982     EISSN: 17088305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1708-8305.2007.00142.x     Document Type: Article

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