Travel
| Definition: |
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. |
| Notes: |
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 |
| Also Called: |
Medicine, Emporiatric,Emporiatrics |
Travel Categories.
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Expeditions - Usually refers to planned scientific data-gathering excursions. |
Travel Definitions and Terms
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