Pre-travel health care of immigrants returning home to visit friends and relatives
| dc.contributor.author | LaRocque, Regina C. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Deshpande, Bhushan R. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Rao, Sowmya R. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Brunette, Gary W. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Sotir, Mark J. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Jentes, Emily S. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ryan, Edward T. | |
| dc.date | 2022-08-11T08:10:34.000 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-23T17:13:04Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-23T17:13:04Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012-11-13 | |
| dc.date.submitted | 2013-04-10 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2013 Feb;88(2):376-80. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.2012.12-0460. Epub 2012 Nov 13. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.2012.12-0460">Link to article on publisher's site</a> | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0002-9637 (Linking) | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.4269/ajtmh.2012.12-0460 | |
| dc.identifier.pmid | 23149585 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/46643 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Immigrants returning home to visit friends and relatives (VFR travelers) are at higher risk of travel-associated illness than other international travelers. We evaluated 3,707 VFR and 17,507 non-VFR travelers seen for pre-travel consultation in Global TravEpiNet during 2009-2011; all were traveling to resource-poor destinations. VFR travelers more commonly visited urban destinations than non-VFR travelers (42% versus 30%, P < 0.0001); 54% of VFR travelers were female, and 18% of VFR travelers were under 6 years old. VFR travelers sought health advice closer to their departure than non-VFR travelers (median days before departure was 17 versus 26, P < 0.0001). In multivariable analysis, being a VFR traveler was an independent predictor of declining a recommended vaccine. Missed opportunities for vaccination could be addressed by improving the timing of pre-travel health care and increasing the acceptance of vaccines. Making pre-travel health care available in primary care settings may be one step to this goal. | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.relation | <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&list_uids=23149585&dopt=Abstract">Link to Article in PubMed</a> | |
| dc.relation.url | http://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.2012.12-0460 | |
| dc.subject | Adolescent | |
| dc.subject | Adult | |
| dc.subject | Aged | |
| dc.subject | Child | |
| dc.subject | Child, Preschool | |
| dc.subject | Cohort Studies | |
| dc.subject | Communicable Disease Control | |
| dc.subject | *Delivery of Health Care | |
| dc.subject | Emigrants and Immigrants | |
| dc.subject | Female | |
| dc.subject | Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice | |
| dc.subject | *Health Planning Guidelines | |
| dc.subject | Humans | |
| dc.subject | Logistic Models | |
| dc.subject | Male | |
| dc.subject | Middle Aged | |
| dc.subject | Multivariate Analysis | |
| dc.subject | *Public Health | |
| dc.subject | Travel | |
| dc.subject | Vaccination | |
| dc.subject | Young Adult | |
| dc.subject | Community Health and Preventive Medicine | |
| dc.subject | Health Services Research | |
| dc.subject | Preventive Medicine | |
| dc.subject | Public Health | |
| dc.title | Pre-travel health care of immigrants returning home to visit friends and relatives | |
| dc.type | Journal Article | |
| dc.source.journaltitle | The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene | |
| dc.source.volume | 88 | |
| dc.source.issue | 2 | |
| dc.identifier.legacycoverpage | https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/qhs_pp/1103 | |
| dc.identifier.contextkey | 4020106 | |
| html.description.abstract | <p>Immigrants returning home to visit friends and relatives (VFR travelers) are at higher risk of travel-associated illness than other international travelers. We evaluated 3,707 VFR and 17,507 non-VFR travelers seen for pre-travel consultation in Global TravEpiNet during 2009-2011; all were traveling to resource-poor destinations. VFR travelers more commonly visited urban destinations than non-VFR travelers (42% versus 30%, P < 0.0001); 54% of VFR travelers were female, and 18% of VFR travelers were under 6 years old. VFR travelers sought health advice closer to their departure than non-VFR travelers (median days before departure was 17 versus 26, P < 0.0001). In multivariable analysis, being a VFR traveler was an independent predictor of declining a recommended vaccine. Missed opportunities for vaccination could be addressed by improving the timing of pre-travel health care and increasing the acceptance of vaccines. Making pre-travel health care available in primary care settings may be one step to this goal.</p> | |
| dc.identifier.submissionpath | qhs_pp/1103 | |
| dc.contributor.department | Department of Quantitative Health Sciences | |
| dc.source.pages | 376-80 |
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