Niederdeppe and colleagues point out that mass media campaigns, in particular, are often differentially effective in advantaged groups for multiple reasons: levels of exposure, levels of persuasiveness, opportunities to change, and access to supports all vary by level of disadvantage [ 90, 91].
After adjusting for demographics, travel reason, trip duration or region of exposure, our results indicate that expatriate travel did not have increased odds for some of the illnesses we are concerned about such as malaria.
Although we excluded patients seen only for screening visits, we observed higher PM for latent TB among expatriates than non-expatriates, even after adjustment for age, sex, travel reason, travel duration, and region of exposure.
Ill returned expatriates differ from other travelers in travel characteristics and proportionate morbidity for specific diseases, based on the region of exposure and travel reason.
Workload and working for more than 40 h/week were previously identified reasons for exposure of nurses and midwives [ 12, 15].
"The NBC crew remains symptom-free, so there is no reason for concern of exposure to the community," she said.
The most straightforward reason is lack of exposure to personalised risk information; most study participants reported having never received such information, and its value was thus simply beyond their imagination.
Because they tend to walk and bike more than other age groups, school-age pedestrians are particularly vulnerable for reasons of increased exposure and are subject to greater consequences when injury occurs due to anatomical factors like greater head to body ratio (Wazana et al. 1997).
