Advising the traveller

Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 56-59

  Herman, Joanna S ^a,b   Hill, David R ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR TROPICAL DISEASES   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

health promotion; health risk assessment; malaria prevention; pre travel advice; travel medicine; travellers' diarrhoea; vaccinations; yellow fever

Indexed keywords

ATOVAQUONE PLUS PROGUANIL; AZITHROMYCIN; BCG VACCINE; CHLOROQUINE; CHLOROQUINE PLUS PROGUANIL; CHOLERA VACCINE; CIPROFLOXACIN; DIPHTHERIA VACCINE; DOXYCYCLINE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE VACCINE; HEPATITIS A VACCINE; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; INFLUENZA VACCINE; LEVOFLOXACIN; MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE; MEFLOQUINE; MENINGITIS VACCINE; MENINGOCOCCUS VACCINE; PERTUSSIS VACCINE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RABIES VACCINE; TETANUS TOXOID; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VACCINE; TYPHOID VACCINE; WART VIRUS VACCINE; YELLOW FEVER VACCINE;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ACUTE DIARRHEA; CAMPYLOBACTER; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MALARIA CONTROL; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; SAFE SEX; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAVEL; TRAVELLER DIARRHEA; TROPICAL DISEASE; VACCINATION;

EID: 72449193652     PISSN: 13573039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mpmed.2009.09.024     Document Type: Review

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