Aussies skip vaccines
September 28, 2012
OVER half of all Aussie travellers
do not seek pre-travel health advice,
despite travelling to at-risk countries,
according to a new study led by the
University of Sydney’s Family
Medicine Research Centre.
The research was a sub-study of
the national BEACH study, and
was conducted in collaboration
with CSL between May and June
2012, involving 102 GPs nationwide
who completed a survey with
2,995 patient respondents.
The study looked at international
travel patterns, travel health
behaviours and pre-travel
vaccination rates among Australian
travellers in a GP setting.
According to the study results
vaccination coverage hepatitis B
(40%, typhoid (45 %, and hepatitis
A (51%) infections were fairly low.
The major reasons that
vaccinations didn’t occur included
patient refusal (32%), patient not
seeking medical advice before
travel (14%) and patients visiting
GPs too late to get the full vaccine
course.
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