Pre-travel health behavior | Region of residence | ||
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Australia (N = 384) | Other Western countries (N = 199) | Asia (N = 225) | |
Visited any doctor in the past year | 265 (69.0%)a | 130 (65.3%) a | 117 (52.0%) |
Visited doctor for travel-health advice prior to this trip | |||
Any health professional†| 158 (41.1%) a | 76 (38.2%) a | 52 (23.1%) |
General practitioner | 129 (33.6%) a | 55 (27.6%) | 46 (20.4%) |
Travel doctor/clinic | 13 (3.4%) b | 17 (8.5%) a | 5 (2.2%) |
Other health professional | 17 (4.4%) | 7 (3.5%) | 2 (0.9%) |
Sought travel health advice from non-medicalsource | |||
Any non-medical source†| 122 (31.8%)b | 93 (46.7%) a | 62 (27.6%) |
Travel agent | 45 (11.7%) b | 36 (18.1%) | 30 (13.3%) |
Researched on the internet | 46 (12.0%) a b | 43 (21.6%) a | 12 (5.3%) |
Government travel advisory | 28 (7.3%) b | 26 (13.1%) | 17 (7.6%) |
Other source | 17 (4.4%) | 11 (5.5%) | 7 (3.1%) |
Source of travel health advice | |||
None | 181 (47.1%) a | 90 (45.2%) a | 140 (62.2%) |
Health professional only | 82 (21.4%) | 16 (8.0%) | 23 (10.2%) |
Health professional/other source | 76 (19.8%) | 61 (30.7%) | 28 (12.4%) |
Other source only | 45 (11.7%) | 32 (16.1%) | 34 (15.1%) |
Vaccinated | Â | Â | Â |
Any pre-travel vaccine†| 46 (12.0%) a b | 43 (21.6%) a | 11 (4.9%) |
Two or more vaccines | 26 (6.8%) a b | 30 (15.1%) a | 5 (2.2%) |
Hepatitis A | 24 (6.3%) | 30 (15.1%) | 4 (1.8%) |
Hepatitis B | 19 (4.9%) | 23 (11.6%) | 4 (1.8%) |
Tetanus | 11 (2.9%) | 16 (8.0%) | 0 (0.0%) |
Typhoid | 17 (4.4%) | 10 (5.0%) | 2 (0.9%) |
Influenza | 16 (4.2%) | 2 (1.0%) | 6 (2.7%) |
Measles/mumps/rubella | 6 (1.6%) | 2 (1.0%) | 2 (0.9%) |
Polio | 7 (1.8%) | 4 (2.0%) | 0 (0.0%) |
Cholera | 5 (1.3%) | 1 (0.5%) | 1 (0.4%) |