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 Varela Martinez³ , Gordon Nichols⁴ , Christopher LR Bartlett⁵ , Jenny Kremastinou⁶ and Christos Hadjichristodoulou¹ for the SHIPSAN partnership**

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