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Descriptor English:   Travel 
Descriptor Spanish:   Viaje 
Descriptor Portuguese:   Viagem 
Synonyms English:   Emporiatrics
Medicine, Emporiatric  
Tree Number:   I03.883
Definition English:   Aspects of health and disease related to travel. It includes the physiologic and psychologic beneficial or adverse effects of travel in general or with regard to specific diseases. It includes also emporiatrics, the specialty devoted to the medical aspects of travel. It excludes study tours. 
Indexing Annotation English:   med, physiol, social, psychol aspects of travel & tourism; for articles on "the hazards of travel" or "the spread of disease by travel"; note X ref EMPORIATRICS for the field of travel medicine or medicine for travelers but do not coord with MEDICINE; not for study tours to various countries: index object of study + geog, as HOSPITALS + GHANA; PEDIATRICS + CHINA; consider also MEDICAL MISSIONS, OFFICIAL or MISSIONS AND MISSIONARIES; jet lag: index JET LAG SYNDROME; traveler's diarrhea: coord IM with DIARRHEA (IM)
See Related English:   Jet Lag Syndrome
 
Allowable Qualifiers English:  
classification economics
ethics history
legislation & jurisprudence psychology
statistics & numerical data trends
Record Number:   14587 
Unique Identifier:   D014195 

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