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Annually, over one million students travel abroad and overseas in pursuit of higher educational opportunities. As seen in Table 1, these students generally go from the developing third world regions to the developed countries for this higher education.
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Char, D.F.B. (1989). Sojourners and Health — Providing Health Care for International Students. In: Steffen, R., Lobel, H., Haworth, J., Bradley, D.J. (eds) Travel Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73772-5_106
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