Blackwell's Primary Care Essentials
Subtitle: Travel Medicine
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
Published: January 15, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780632044825
First sentence: Death rates among travelers not higher than nontravelers, but travelers likely to be a healthier subset of national populations (J Travel Med 2000;7:227); of all deaths in Canadians traveling abroad, 60 termed "natural" (w cardiovascular the most common dx) 25 due to accidents (mostly vehicular), 13 due to homicide/suicide (J Travel Med 2000;7:227); median age 43 yr (av 56 yr)