Travel medicine perspectives of select travel medicine experts practicing in the Asia-Pacific region

Journal of Travel Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Leder, Karin ^a   Borwein, Sarah ^b   Chanthavanich, Pornthep ^c   Chatterjee, Santanu ^d   Htun, Kaythi ^e   Marma, Aung Swi Prue ^f   Nakatani, Issaku ^g   Ok, Jin Ju ^h   Pakasi, Levina ⁱ   Pandey, Prativa ^j   Piyaphanee, Watcharapong ^c   Rupali, Priscilla ^k   Schwartz, Eli ^l,m   Shinozuka, Tadashi ⁿ   Phu, Phi Truong Hoang ^o   Watanabe, Hiroshi ^p   Visser, Jenny ^q   Wilder Smith, Annelies ^r   Zhang, Min ^s   McGuinness, Sarah L ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b TravelSafe Clinic   (Hong Kong)

^c MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^d Travel and Tropical Medicine   (India)

^e Nara Seibu Hospital ^*  (Myanmar)

^f The Catholic University of Korea ^*  (Bangladesh)

^g Nara Seibu Hospital   (Japan)

^h The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

ⁱ AIC Clinic   (Indonesia)

^j CIWEC Hospital and Travel Medicine Center   (Nepal)

^k CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^l SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^m TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

ⁿ Japan Preventive Medicine Society   (Japan)

^o International SOS Clinic   (Viet Nam)

^p KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^q UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^r NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^s Guangdong International Healthcare Center (Guangdong ITHC)   (China)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOVAQUONE PLUS PROGUANIL; CHOLERA VACCINE; HEPATITIS A VACCINE; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VACCINE; MENINGOCOCCUS VACCINE; RABIES IMMUNOGLOBULIN; RABIES VACCINE; TYPHOID VACCINE; YELLOW FEVER VACCINE;

AUSTRALIA; BANGLADESH; CHINA; DRUG COST; EMPORIATRICS; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HONG KONG; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDIA; INDONESIA; ISRAEL; JAPAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MYANMAR; NEPAL; NOTE; REIMBURSEMENT; SINGAPORE; SOUTH KOREA; THAILAND; TRAVEL; TROPICAL MEDICINE; VIET NAM; ASIA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EXPERT WITNESS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; STANDARDS; VACCINATION;

ASIA; EXPERT TESTIMONY; HUMANS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PRACTICE PATTERNS, PHYSICIANS'; TRAVEL MEDICINE; VACCINATION;

EID: 85020426969     PISSN: 11951982     EISSN: 17088305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jtm/tax012     Document Type: Note

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