Travellers: A taboo for primary teachers

Sentinel surveillance for travellers' diarrhoea in primary care

BACKGROUND Travellers' diarrhoea is the most common health problem among international travellers and much of the burden falls on general practitioners. We assessed whether sentinel surveillance based in primary care could be used to monitor changes in the epidemiology of travellers' diarrhoea. METHODS A sentinel surveillance scheme of 30 volunteer general practices distributed throughout Wal...

A Study on Expert Primary School Teachers’ Deep Insight and a Model to Develop that in Student Teachers

The present research has endeavored to study deep insight experiences of expert teachers of primary schools as an effort to provide a model to be expanded for student teachers to use. Taking a qualitative approach, the research used narrative inquiry. The statistical population consisted of primary school teachers. Snowball sampling was used, and data collection and analysis were carried out by...

Mosquito repellents for travellers.

This is one of a series of occasional articles on therapeutics for common or serious conditions, covering new drugs and old drugs with important new indications or concerns. The series advisers are Robin Ferner, honorary professor of clinical pharmacology, University of Birmingham and Birmingham City Hospital, and Albert Ferro, professor of cardiovascular clinical pharmacology, King’s College L...

Malaria prophylaxis for travellers.

Dutch taboo norms

This article provides norms for general taboo, personal taboo, insult, valence, and arousal for 672 Dutch words, including 202 taboo words. Norms were collected using a 7-point Likert scale and based on ratings by psychology students from the Erasmus University Rotterdam in The Netherlands. The sample consisted of 87 psychology students (58 females, 29 males). We obtained high reliability based...