Illness and injury of travellers abroad: Finnish nationwide data from 2010 to 2012, with incidences in various regions of the world

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 20, Issue 19, 2015, Pages

  Siikamaki H ^a,b   Kivela P ^a   Fotopoulos, M ^b   Ollgren, J ^c   Kantele, A ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b SOS International   (Denmark)

^c NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; FEMALE; FINN (CITIZEN); FRACTURE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SKIN DISEASE; TRAVEL; TRAVELLER DISEASE; VASCULAR DISEASE; VERY ELDERLY; CHILD; DATA BASE; EUROPE; FINLAND; INFANT; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATABASES AS TOPIC; EUROPE; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERNATIONALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TRAVEL; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84929441323     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES2015.20.19.21128     Document Type: Article

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