Risk factors and pre-travel healthcare of international travellers attending a Dutch travel clinic: A cross-sectional analysis

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 511-524

  Wieten, Rosanne W ^a   Van Der Schalie, Maurice ^a   Visser, Benjamin J ^a   Grobusch, Martin P ^a   Van Vugt, Michèle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Hepatitis; Pre travel health care; Rabies; Risk patterns; Travel medicine

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B VACCINE; RABIES VACCINE;

ADULT; AFRICA; AGE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMPORIATRICS; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; RABIES; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TRAVEL; VACCINATION; WEST AFRICA; YOUNG ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEPATITIS B VACCINES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; RABIES VACCINES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TRAVEL; TRAVEL MEDICINE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84908164638     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: 18730442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2014.05.004     Document Type: Article

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