Table 2 Reported pre-travel-health behaviors and vaccine uptake by traveler region of residence (N = 808*)

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

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%)