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Mycoplasma genitalium in the Far North Queensland backpacker population: An observational study of prevalence and azithromycin resistance. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 BACKGROUND:Mycoplasma genitalium is a sexually transmitted infection (STI), and a common cause of non-gonococcal urethritis (NGU). There is concern regarding the rise in prevalence of M.
Thomas Trevis +5 more
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Rickettsiosis in Southeast Asia: Summary for International Travellers during the COVID-19 Pandemic [PDF]
Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2022 Rickettsiosis is an important cause of febrile illness among travellers visiting Southeast Asia (SEA). The true incidence of rickettsiosis is underestimated; however, murine typhus and scrub typhus are widely distributed across SEA.
Thundon Ngamprasertchai +2 more
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The evolution of Israeli public policy for drug-using backpackers [PDF]
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research, 2018 Background Over the past 20 years, the young-adult backpacking trip has emerged as a significant social phenomenon in Israeli society. This has received attention from scholars specializing in anthropology and tourism research, but only a few analytical ...
Hagit Bonny-Noach
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Harm reduction when it’s for our own kids: comment on Hagit Bonny-Noach, “The evolution of Israeli public policy for drug-using backpackers [PDF]
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research, 2018 Hagit Bonny-Noach notes the challenging history of illicit substance use among Israeli backpackers. Few Israeli practices are more normative than the backpacking-trip as a rite of passage.
Harold A. Pollack
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Travel Health Knowledge and Perception of Foreign Backpackers Traveling in Bali
Jurnal Ilmu Kesehatan Masyarakat, 2021 International travel to a country has potentially carry health risks for travelers, including backpackers. To date, little is known about Travel Health knowledge and perception among foreign backpackers traveling to Bali.
Ni Made Dian Kurniasari +3 more
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Topics in Clinical Nutrition, 2018 An increasing gap has been seen between the government food assistance programs and those who need help. One program filling the gap is Feeding America's BackPack Program that provides nutritious food to children to eat on the weekends when they may not have access to adequate food.
Wright, Lauri, Epps, James B.
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Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, 2023 Dave Eggers’s You Shall Know Our Velocity (2002) can be read as a (post) modern voice in the ongoing debate on educational, transformative and redemptive po- tential of foreign travel for the young Americans in the late 1990s.
Małgorzata Rutkowska
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Developing a Model of Backpackers’ Exploratory Curiosity [PDF]
Tourism and Hospitality Management, 2021 Purpose – While curiosity is a critical factor in motivating human exploratory behaviors across domains, past studies are yet to explore the exploratory curiosity construct in the context of backpacking.
Kuan-Yu Chen, Yu-Lun Hsu
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Dynamics of travel decision-making between organized packaged tourists and backpackers
International Journal of Applied Sciences in Tourism and Events, 2023 Tourists are different in terms of their purpose of travel, the tourist type, the number of days spent, and how they spend time in a destination. Tourist decision-making models attempt to conceptualize how tourists make decisions during their pre-travel,
Wickrama Hewage Thejani Madhuhansi +1 more
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Virus in motion: notas sobre turismo mochileiro em tempos de pandemia
Argumentos, 2023 This article discusses some of the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic among backpackers: individuals who seek to make their trips based on “independence” from tourist agencies, flexibility of itineraries, longer time in transit, “lean ...
Igor Monteiro Silva
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