BACKGROUND Gypsies and Travellers are known to have poor health status and access to health services, even in comparison with other ethnic minority groups. People from this stigmatized ethnic group are rarely consulted about their health needs or health service provision. Optimal infant feeding in the first year of life has the potential to improve lifelong health. OBJECTIVE The aim of this s...

Ireland's unique and well-documented history provides insight into the formation and origins of population subdivisions. Of particular interest, is the controversial ethnogenesis of an itinerant population of Ireland: the Travellers. The objectives of this study were: (1) to determine the genetic affinity of the Travellers to the general Irish population based on gene frequency data, subdivided...

Fever in a returned traveller may be the manifestation of a self-limiting, trivial infection but it can also presage an infection that can be rapidly progressive and lethal. We studied the diagnostic accuracy of procalcitonin (PCT) as a biomarker for a bacterial cause of fever in a cohort of 157 consecutive travellers with fever after a stay in the (sub)tropics. Elevated procalcitonin levels we...

PURPOSE We are concerned with aiding the mobility of visually impaired travellers around often complex and unfamiliar internal and urban environments. To do this we focus on a users interaction with ambient devices because these device types provide an easy entry point for visually impaired individuals to interact with their surroundings. By augmenting the physical environment with mobility foc...

The use of stand-by treatment for malaria by travellers depends on their knowledge, attitudes and behaviour. We examined the behavioural aspects of a cohort of travellers from Switzerland to low-risk malarial areas who, on recruitment, were provided with a kit containing medication for stand-by treatment, guidelines on the diagnosis of malaria, and materials for collection of blood samples for ...

In recent decades, the incidence, distribution and clinical severity of dengue have increased dramatically in most tropical and subtropical areas worldwide. As a consequence, and due to the expanding international tourism, health care providers in European travel clinics are more and more confronted with dengue, reflecting its global impact. Based on data of the European Network on Imported Inf...

Malaria remains a significant health risk to millions of people living in endemic areas of the world. An increase in drugresistant parasites combined with an increase in international travel, has seen a concordant increase in the number of cases of malaria imported by travellers into the industrialised world annually. Malaria in travellers can nearly always be prevented by the application of pe...

As the population increases, older people have the opportunity to travel for longer periods and to destinations that are quite different from what they are used to. Older people do indeed have more ongoing medical issues and some limitations due to the aging process. Most of the time these chronic conditions are not a contraindication to travel. Preparing for travel frequently involves starting...

This study sheds light on consumer demand for air travel in the pandemic context by proposing and evaluating a model that combines personal third-party beliefs intentions (Theory of Planned Behaviour), as well perceived level threat familiarity (Protection Motivation Theory). The is evaluated with sample 381 respondents from Portugal, into two groups: travellers vs. non-travellers. Our results ...