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travel medicine  

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  • Travel medicine, aimed at the prevention and treatment of medical complications in travelers and other geographically displaced individuals, embraces specialized areas of tropical medicine, occupation medicine, pharmacology, epidemiology, public health, preventive medicine, and infectious diseases. The primary goal of travel medicine is to keep travelers alive and healthy. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Health; Travel Medicine]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-PW6PMCQ1-N

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