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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
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