Pre-travel counselling in Greece for travellers visiting friends and relatives

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 312-315

  Pavli, Androula ^a   Katerelos, Panagiotis ^a   Pierroutsakos, Ioannis N ^a   Maltezou, Helen C ^a  

^a Hellenic Centre for Disease Control and Prevention   (Greece)

Author keywords

Greece; Pre travel counselling; Travellers; Visiting relatives and friends (VFRs)

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; AGE; ARTICLE; ASIA; CHILD; COUNSELING; FRIEND; GREECE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEISURE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELATIVE; SCHOOL CHILD; TRAVEL; VACCINATION;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COUNSELING; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; TRAVEL; VACCINATION;

EID: 69749102631     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2009.07.002     Document Type: Article

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