Defining malaria risk: it is not only about epidemiology but also about perception and risk threshold of travellers and policy makers | Zendy

R.H. Behrens | Zendy; Christoph Hatz | Zendy; Leo G. Visser | Zendy

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Defining malaria risk: it is not only about epidemiology but also about perception and risk threshold of travellers and policy makers

Author(s) -

R.H. Behrens,

Christoph Hatz,

Leo G. Visser

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

journal of travel medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.985

H-Index - 59

eISSN - 1708-8305

pISSN - 1195-1982

DOI - 10.1093/jtm/tay043

Subject(s) - medicine , epidemiology , malaria , risk perception , environmental health , perception , risk assessment , medline , immunology , pathology , computer security , neuroscience , computer science , biology , political science , law

The changing global malaria epidemiology requires policy makers both in endemic and in nonendemic countries to regularly reconsider their malaria prevention strategies. In such countries, policy adjustments are more limited as the malaria infection is a remote event and there are limited interventions including prophylaxis, emergency treatment, bite avoidance and changing travellers’ behaviour as interventions.

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