Travel risk behaviours and uptake of pre-travel health preventions by university students in Australia

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Heywood, Anita E ^a   Zhang, Meng ^b   MacIntyre, C Raina ^a,c   Seale, Holly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIDIARRHEAL AGENT; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; DRINKING WATER; INSECT REPELLENT; SUNSCREEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; CONDOM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; FOREIGN STUDENT; HEALTH EDUCATION; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFORMATION SEEKING; MALE; MIGRATION; PRIMARY PREVENTION; TRAVEL; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; VACCINATION; VITAMIN INTAKE; ANIMAL; PATIENT ATTITUDE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEW SOUTH WALES; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STUDENTS; TRAVEL; UNIVERSITIES; VACCINATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856995830     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-12-43     Document Type: Article

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