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Occupational health legislation and practices related to seafarers on passenger ships focused on communicable diseases: results from a European cross-sectional study (EU SHIPSAN PROJECT)

George Rachiotis1, Varvara A Mouchtouri1, Clara Schlaich2, Tobias Riemer2, Carmen V Martinez3, Gordon Nichols4, Christopher LR Bartlett5, Jenny Kremastinou6, Christos Hadjichristodoulou1* and the SHIPSAN partnership**

Author Affiliations

1 Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Thessaly, 22 Papakiriazi Str., Larissa, 41222, Greece

2 Hamburg Port Health Center, Institute of Occupational and Maritime Medicine, Seewartenstrasse 10 20459 Hamburg, Germany

3 National Centre of Epidemiology, Sinesio Delgado 6 28029, Madrid, Spain

4 Gastrointestinal, Emerging and Zoonotic Infections Department Health Centre for Infections, Health Protection Agency, 61 Colindale Avenue, London NW9 5EQ, UK

5 UCL Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology Department of Primary Care Population Sciences Royal Free and University College Medical, School Latchmoo Farm, Tile Barn Lane, Brockenhurst, SO42 7UE, UK

6 Department of Public and Administrative Health, National School of Public Health, 196 Leoforos Alexandras, 115 21 Athens, Greece

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Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2010, 5:1 doi:10.1186/1745-6673-5-1

Published: 10 February 2010

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Questionnaire. The file contains the questionnaire used in the cross-sectional study.

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