Travel and public health

Increasing international travel and migration can interfere with public health in both the country of destination and back home. The revised International Health Regulations (IHR) and travel disease sentinel networks are means to protect public and individual health. Public health risks related to i...

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Autores principales: Fricker, Manuel, Steffen, Robert
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences. Published by Elsevier Ltd 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7102744/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20701848
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jiph.2008.10.005
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description Increasing international travel and migration can interfere with public health in both the country of destination and back home. The revised International Health Regulations (IHR) and travel disease sentinel networks are means to protect public and individual health. Public health risks related to infectious disease are higher in mass gatherings, in travellers visiting friends and relatives and in sexual encounters away from home. In contrast, in-flight transmission of infections plays only a limited role.
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spelling pubmed-71027442020-03-31 Travel and public health Fricker, Manuel Steffen, Robert J Infect Public Health Article Increasing international travel and migration can interfere with public health in both the country of destination and back home. The revised International Health Regulations (IHR) and travel disease sentinel networks are means to protect public and individual health. Public health risks related to infectious disease are higher in mass gatherings, in travellers visiting friends and relatives and in sexual encounters away from home. In contrast, in-flight transmission of infections plays only a limited role. King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences. Published by Elsevier Ltd 2008 2008-11-26 /pmc/articles/PMC7102744/ /pubmed/20701848 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jiph.2008.10.005 Text en Copyright © 2008 King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences. Published by Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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