Travel to malaria-endemic areas: using digital geo-location to assess potential exposure risks and health behaviours
Travellers to Brazil, India, Peru and Thailand rarely visited high-risk malaria areas, and their adherence to mosquito bite prevention measures was generally low. In Tanzania, adherence was higher but still suboptimal.
Authors
- Silja Bühler (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1149-1389)
- Olivia Veit
- Vasiliki Baroutsou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3475-4831)
- Andrea Farnham (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0830-0927)
- Jan Fehr (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1113-9895)
- Milo A. Puhan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4721-1879)
- Christoph Hatz
Institutions
- Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (CH)
- University of Basel (CH)
- University of Zurich (CH)
- Prevention Institute (US)
- Institut für Hygiene und Umwelt (DE)
- Geneva College (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Travel Medicine
- Published
- 2024-10-25
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jtm/taae141
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Travel-related health issues
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.54
Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung