BACKGROUND Gypsies and Travellers are known to have poor health status and access to health services, even in comparison with other ethnic minority groups. People from this stigmatized ethnic group are rarely consulted about their health needs or health service provision. Optimal infant feeding in the first year of life has the potential to improve lifelong health. OBJECTIVE The aim of this s...

Ireland's unique and well-documented history provides insight into the formation and origins of population subdivisions. Of particular interest, is the controversial ethnogenesis of an itinerant population of Ireland: the Travellers. The objectives of this study were: (1) to determine the genetic affinity of the Travellers to the general Irish population based on gene frequency data, subdivided...

In recent decades, the incidence, distribution and clinical severity of dengue have increased dramatically in most tropical and subtropical areas worldwide. As a consequence, and due to the expanding international tourism, health care providers in European travel clinics are more and more confronted with dengue, reflecting its global impact. Based on data of the European Network on Imported Inf...

The use of stand-by treatment for malaria by travellers depends on their knowledge, attitudes and behaviour. We examined the behavioural aspects of a cohort of travellers from Switzerland to low-risk malarial areas who, on recruitment, were provided with a kit containing medication for stand-by treatment, guidelines on the diagnosis of malaria, and materials for collection of blood samples for ...

Malaria remains a significant health risk to millions of people living in endemic areas of the world. An increase in drugresistant parasites combined with an increase in international travel, has seen a concordant increase in the number of cases of malaria imported by travellers into the industrialised world annually. Malaria in travellers can nearly always be prevented by the application of pe...

The sustainable development and success of industrial regions is largely determined by the efficiency enterprises in territory, united ecosystems, often around city-forming enterprise. study their evolution interrelations participants will make it possible to more effectively implement goals ensure a fair distribution income, well-being rational environmental management. purpose article assess ...

Fever in a returned traveller may be the manifestation of a self-limiting, trivial infection but it can also presage an infection that can be rapidly progressive and lethal. We studied the diagnostic accuracy of procalcitonin (PCT) as a biomarker for a bacterial cause of fever in a cohort of 157 consecutive travellers with fever after a stay in the (sub)tropics. Elevated procalcitonin levels we...

4 TRAVELLERS can be played alone or together with friends and at the same time teach you new words in Spanish. The game is suitable for both young and old, and no previous knowledge is necessary. The more you play the more your Spanish vocabulary increases. You can also play and learn with the mini-games’ unique learning mode. The game is perfect to bring on your trip, and over 240 carefully se...

BMJ 1993;306:1247-52 To provide revised guidance on malaria prevention for the medical advisers oftravellers from the United Kingdom going overseas to malarious areas, a committee of those most involved in giving advice and with specialist expertise in the United Kingdom agreed a policy document. There is a need for all travellers to be aware of the risk of malaria and to take measures to avoid...

This document describes an optional extension to Router Advertisement messages for communicating default router preferences and morespecific routes from routers to hosts. This improves the ability of hosts to pick an appropriate router, especially when the host is multi-homed and the routers are on different links. The preference values and specific routes advertised to hosts require administra...