2024
Volume 24, Number 1, pp. 9-16
Health complaints among frequent flyers
Michel F.A. Mulder
Aviation Medical Consult, Hilversum, The Netherlands
The results of a questionnaire-based survey of Dutch frequent air travelers are presented. The survey encompasses general discomforts and inconveniences as well as symptoms of ill health. A target group of sufferers from flying-related health complaints is tentatively identified, amounting to some tens of thousands of the Dutch population aged 30 or older.