نتایج جستجو برای: international travel

تعداد نتایج: 350439  

Journal: :Emerging Infectious Diseases 1998
M. Cetron J. Keystone D. Shlim R. Steffen

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...

2010
James Chow Xiaoying Xie

This study aims to determine the effectiveness of vocalized hesitations when attempting to persuade people to travel abroad by recounting personal international experiences. Using an experimental design, 171 undergraduate students at California State University, Sacramento were divided into two groups and shown a video of someone attempting to persuade them to travel abroad based on fictional i...

2013
Shirin Wadhwaniya Adnan A. Hyder

International travel is fast growing. In 2011, 982 million international tourists traveled around the world to visit friends and relatives, for business, leisure, or other purposes.1 While Europe (51%) continues to be a popular tourist destination attracting about half a billion people, Asia and the Pacific (22%) are also gaining popularity.1 In 2011, 217 million people traveled to Asia-Pacific...

2002
Priya Shyamsundar E. MERCER

Travel cost and contingent valuation methods are applied to the problem of estimating the potential consumer surpltrs avai!abfe to international nature tourists from a rain forest conservation project in Madagascar. Data are derived from srrrveys of nature tourists in Madagascar and international, nature tolrrism professionals in the U.S. and Europe. Typical trip travel cost models are used to ...

Journal: :Indian journal of medical ethics 2011
Vivien Runnels Leigh Turner

Health-related travel, also referred to as "medical tourism" is historically well-known. Its emerging contemporary form suggests the development of a form of globalised for-profit healthcare. Medical tourism to India, the focus of a recent conference in Canada, provides an example of the globalisation of healthcare. By positioning itself as a low-cost, high-tech, fast-access and high-quality he...

Journal: :Journal of travel medicine 2017
A Michal Stevens Douglas H Esposito Rhett J Stoney Davidson H Hamer Jose Flores-Figueroa Emmanuel Bottieau Bradley A Connor Effrossyni Gkrania-Klotsas Abraham Goorhuis Noreen A Hynes Michael Libman Rogelio Lopez-Velez Anne E McCarthy Frank von Sonnenburg Eli Schwartz Perry J J van Genderen L Scott Benson Daniel T Leung

Background There is increasing recognition of the contribution of community-acquired cases to the global burden of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI). The epidemiology of CDI among international travellers is poorly understood, and factors associated with international travel, such as antibiotic use and changes in gut microbiota, could potentially put travellers at higher risk. Methods We ...

Journal: :Pediatrics 2000
C W Worley K A Worley P L Kumar

BACKGROUND In today's mobile society, international travel and immigration are becoming increasingly more common. This poses an additional challenge to the clinician to expand the differential diagnosis to include diseases endemic to the area of travel. OBSERVATION We present a case of malaria and tuberculosis in a 16-year-old African male immigrant. He had several encounters with the health ...

2017
Wendy Rhymer Rick Speare

OBJECTIVE To determine how, during the 2013-2016 Ebola outbreak in western Africa, States Parties to the World Health Organization's (WHO) 2005 International Health Regulations (IHR) followed the IHR's international travel recommendations. METHODS In 2015, we used the Google search engine to investigate the 196 States Parties to the 2005 IHR. Information detailing Ebola-related travel regulat...

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