Professional aircrews' attitudes toward infectious diseases and aviation medical issues

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 83, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1167-1170

  Schwartz, Michael D ^a   Macias Moriarity, Lilia Z ^a   Schelling, Joerg ^b  

^a SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Airline; Flight crews; Grounding; Travel medicine

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIRCRAFT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIRCRAFT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84871170638     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/ASEM.3330.2012     Document Type: Article

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