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Title: | Health and safety problems and lack of information among international visitors backpacking through north Queensland. |
Authors: | Peach, Hedley G. Bath, Nicole E. |
Issue Date: | 2000 |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Place of publication: | London |
Publication Title: | Journal of Travel Medicine |
Volume: | 7 |
Issue: | 5 |
Start Page: | 234 |
End Page: | 328 |
Abstract: | BACKGROUND: International visitors to tropical Australia may be exposed to health and safety problems. Because they are younger, stay longer and participate in more activities, backpackers have a greater exposure to such problems than other visitors. METHOD: The study's aim was to determine how many backpackers experience problems and lack health and safety information. Four hundred and thirty-one international visitors staying in a random sample of youth hostels and backpacker accommodation in Townsville were surveyed over the summer. RESULTS: Sixty two percent experienced a health and safety problem, commonly, insect bites, sunburn, headaches, lacerations, coral cuts, ear infections and diarrhea. Seventeen percent resolved only with professional help. Only 54% of backpackers had been offered health and safety information prior to departure, mainly vaccination advice. CONCLUSION: The proportion of backpackers offered health and safety information about tropical Australia, and the breadth of that information, needs to be increased. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11054/131 |
Resource Link: | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2310/7060.2000.00071/abstract |
ISSN: | 1195-1982 |
Internal ID Number: | 00115 |
Health Subject: | TROPICAL MEDICINE NORTH QUEENSLAND BACKPACKERS HEALTH AND SAFETY TOWNSVILLE HEALTH PROBLEMS INTERNATIONAL VISITORS TOURISTS |
Type: | Journal Article Article |
Appears in Collections: | Research Output |
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