Travel health care for immigrant children visiting friends and relatives abroad: Retrospective analysis of a hospital-based travel health service in a US Urban underserved area

Journal of Travel Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 407-412

  Hagmann, Stefan ^a   Benavides, Valeria ^b,c   Neugebauer, Richard ^b   Purswani, Murli ^a  

^a BRONX LEBANON HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOVAQUONE PLUS PROGUANIL; CHICKENPOX VACCINE; CHLOROQUINE; DIPHTHERIA VACCINE; DOXYCYCLINE; HEPATITIS A VACCINE; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; INFLUENZA VACCINE; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VACCINE; MEASLES VACCINE; MEFLOQUINE; MENINGOCOCCUS VACCINE; MUMPS VACCINE; PERTUSSIS VACCINE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; RABIES VACCINE; RUBELLA VACCINE; TETANUS TOXOID; TYPHOID VACCINE; YELLOW FEVER VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHICKENPOX; CHILD; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPHTHERIA; EMPORIATRICS; EPIDEMIC ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS B; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INFANT; INFLUENZA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MEASLES; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; MUMPS; PERTUSSIS; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRESCRIPTION; RABIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RUBELLA; SCHOOL CHILD; TETANUS; THERAPY DELAY; TRAVEL; TYPHOID FEVER; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; YELLOW FEVER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA, WESTERN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIMALARIALS; BACTERIAL VACCINES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; FRIENDS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALARIA; MALE; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; MEFLOQUINE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK CITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES; VIRAL VACCINES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70449367157     PISSN: 11951982     EISSN: 17088305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1708-8305.2009.00357.x     Document Type: Article

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