title: Do British travel agents provide adequate health advice for travellers?
abstract: Travel-related illness is a burden for primary care, with more than two million travellers consulting a general practitioner each year. The annual cost of travel-related illness in the United Kingdom is 11 million Pounds. Travel agents are in a unique position to influence this burden as the most common and most serious problems are preventable with simple advice and/or immunisation. This study, using covert researchers, suggests this potential is not being fully utilised.
authors.affiliation: Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol. D.A.Lawlor@bristol.ac.uk
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Lawlor
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Burke
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bouskill
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Conn
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Edwards
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gillespie
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014195:Travel; D006113:United Kingdom