“Airplane ear”—A neglected yet preventable problem

Sudip Bhattacharya; Amarjeet Singh; Roy Rillera Marzo; Sudip Bhattacharya; Amarjeet Singh; Roy Rillera Marzo

doi:10.3934/publichealth.2019.3.320

AIMS Public Health

2019, Volume 6, Issue 3: 320-325. doi: 10.3934/publichealth.2019.3.320

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Brief report

“Airplane ear”—A neglected yet preventable problem

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Department of Community Medicine, Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences, Dehradun, India
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Department of Community Medicine, School of Public Health, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
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Department of Public Health, Asia Metropolitan University, Johor Bahru, Malaysia

Received: 18 June 2019 Accepted: 20 August 2019 Published: 26 August 2019

- airplane ear,
- earache,
- valsalva,
- health promotion,
- prevention
Citation: Sudip Bhattacharya, Amarjeet Singh, Roy Rillera Marzo. “Airplane ear”—A neglected yet preventable problem[J]. AIMS Public Health, 2019, 6(3): 320-325. doi: 10.3934/publichealth.2019.3.320

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank all the authors of those books, articles, sources and journals that were referred in preparing this manuscript. We do acknowledge Dr. Dipak Kumar Dhar, Dr. Kaushik Roy, and Dr. Md Mahbub Hossain for their valuable inputs.

Conflict of interest

All authors declare no conflicts of interest in this paper.

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