TY - JOUR
T1 - Health Advice to International Travelers
T2 - An Evaluation of Sources
AU - White, Franklin
AU - Sharma, Mukul
PY - 1983/12/22
Y1 - 1983/12/22
N2 - To the Editor: The quality of health advice to travelers is a public-health concern. A survey of 18 travel agents in a major metropolitan area of Nova Scotia revealed a strict uniformity of the information source. All 14 respondents used the Travel Information Manual of the International Air Travel Association.1 No agent received the Weekly Quarantinable Disease Report of Health and Welfare Canada, and only one received the immunization supplement from the same source. No agent used either Health Information for International Travel (a supplement to the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)2 or the Vaccination Certificate Requirements for&.
AB - To the Editor: The quality of health advice to travelers is a public-health concern. A survey of 18 travel agents in a major metropolitan area of Nova Scotia revealed a strict uniformity of the information source. All 14 respondents used the Travel Information Manual of the International Air Travel Association.1 No agent received the Weekly Quarantinable Disease Report of Health and Welfare Canada, and only one received the immunization supplement from the same source. No agent used either Health Information for International Travel (a supplement to the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)2 or the Vaccination Certificate Requirements for&.
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U2 - 10.1056/NEJM198312223092521
DO - 10.1056/NEJM198312223092521
M3 - Letter
C2 - 6656856
AN - SCOPUS:0021049257
SN - 0028-4793
VL - 309
SP - 1587
JO - New England Journal of Medicine
JF - New England Journal of Medicine
IS - 25
ER -
