Health risks to air travelers

Assessment of air pollution in exercise centers and health risks

Background: In recent years, Tehran has faced major problems with air pollution for many reasons, and this issue has become a critical point in most of the days. However, less attention has been paid to the indoor air pollutants in exercise centers and their possible health effects. In this research, it was tried to briefly describe the characteristics and chemical composition of the aerosols p...

Acceptance of Public Health Measures by Air Travelers, Switzerland

To the Editor: Infectious diseases can spread rapidly by air travel, as did severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003. Public health measures at airports might protect passengers and employees from such diseases and delay spread into the general population. The SARS epidemic was contained largely through traditional public health interventions (1,2). These interventions included recommen...

Air quality and lung health – the risks

Travelers' health.

Over the last century and a half, the world's population has grown from one billion to almost six billion, and the time required to circumnavi-gate the globe has decreased from 365 days to fewer than 3. Currently, 1.4 million persons travel internationally by air every day. The speed and volume of international travel are cited by the Institute of Medicine as principal factors contributing to t...

Skip the Trip: Air Travelers' Behavioral Responses to Pandemic Influenza

Theory suggests that human behavior has implications for disease spread. We examine the hypothesis that individuals engage in voluntary defensive behavior during an epidemic. We estimate the number of passengers missing previously purchased flights as a function of concern for swine flu or A/H1N1 influenza using 1.7 million detailed flight records, Google Trends, and the World Health Organizati...