title: Viewpoint--Travel medicine and maritime medicine.
abstract: Although travel medicine and maritime medicine study health problems of different populations of travelers, they have many common interests. Seafarers are a special kind of travelers and for them traveling is the essential part of their professional lives, so the health risks during travel are basically the risks of their profession and their working environment. In this paper similarities and differences between the practice of work in these two specialities of medicine are presented and discussed.
authors.affiliation: College of Maritime Studies, Rijeka, Croatia. travel-medicina@ri.tel.hr
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authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Nikolić
mesh_terms: D014943:Global Health; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D009326:Naval Medicine; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014195:Travel