Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Volume 8, Issue 3 , Pages 180-183 , May 2010

Developing an understanding between people: The key to global health

  • Alina Serafin

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    • Corresponding Author InformationCotswold Brow, Rodborough Common, Stroud, Gloucestershire GL5 5BX, UK. Tel.: +44 7855943155.

Received 31 December 2009 ,Revised 18 February 2010 ,Accepted 23 February 2010.

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PII: S1477-8939(10)00031-1

doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2010.02.005

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Volume 8, Issue 3 , Pages 180-183 , May 2010