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| R H BehrensSummaryAffiliation: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Country: UK Publications
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Cost risk benefit analysis to support chemoprophylaxis policy for travellers to malaria endemic countriesEduardo Massad
School of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo and LIM 01 HCFMUSP, Brazil
Malar J 10:130. 2011..To evaluate whether current malaria chemo-prophylactic policy for travellers is cost effective when adjusted for endemic transmission risk and duration of exposure. a framework, based on partial cost-benefit analysis was used...- Modeling the risk of malaria for travelers to areas with stable malaria transmissionEduardo Massad
Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo and LIM 01 HCFMUSP, Rua Teodoro Sampaio, 115, CEP 05405 000 São Paulo, S P, Brazil
Malar J 8:296. 2009..The risk of acquiring malaria is complex and a number of factors including transmission intensity, duration of exposure, season of the year and use of chemoprophylaxis have to be taken into account estimating risk... - Epidemiology and clinical features of vivax malaria imported to Europe: sentinel surveillance data from TropNetEuropN Mühlberger
Institute of Tropical Medicine, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
Malar J 3:5. 2004..vivax malaria are limited. The TropNetEurop surveillance network has monitored the importation of vivax malaria into Europe since 1999... - The incidence of malaria in travellers to South-East Asia: is local malaria transmission a useful risk indicator?Ron H Behrens
Travel Clinic, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Mortimer Market, London, WC1E 6JB, UK
Malar J 9:266. 2010..The study was designed to examine whether the strategy of using malaria transmission in a local population was an accurate estimate of the malaria threat faced by travellers and a correlate of malaria in returning travellers... - Declining incidence of malaria imported into the UK from West AfricaRon H Behrens
Department of Travel Medicine, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London, UK
Malar J 7:235. 2008.... - The low and declining risk of malaria in travellers to Latin America: is there still an indication for chemoprophylaxis?Ron H Behrens
Travel Clinic, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Mortimer Market, London, WC1E 6JB, UK
Malar J 6:114. 2007..The risk of adverse events are high and the benefit of avoided benign vivax malaria is very low under current policy, which may be causing more harm than benefit... - Malaria prophylaxis policy for travellers from Europe to the Indian SubcontinentR H Behrens
Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Malar J 5:7. 2006..The group recommended non-selective prescribing of chemoprophylaxis for visitors to India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka should be dropped... - Risk factors for malaria in UK travellersDavid A Moore
Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Mortimer Market, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Imperial College London, London W12 0NN, UK
Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 98:55-63. 2004..Local factors may also influence the risk of malaria. Malaria could be prevented among travellers to West Africa if current national guidelines on antimalarial prophylaxis were better implemented... - Health beliefs and communication in the travel clinic consultation as predictors of adherence to malaria chemoprophylaxisLorna Farquharson
Sub-Department of Clinical Health Psychology, University College London, London, UK
Br J Health Psychol 9:201-17. 2004..Although the clinic consultation had a positive impact, emphasizing benefits of medication and resolving potential barriers to adherence could improve adherence in the population... - Chemoprophylaxis compliance in travelers with malariaR H Behrens
Travel Clinic, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, 4 St Pancras Way, London NW1 OPE, United Kingdom
J Travel Med 5:92-4. 1998..This has enabled us to characterize the role of CRPF and poor compliance in the etiology of breakthrough malaria in travelers... - Travel case scenarios as a demonstration of risk assessment of VFR travelers: introduction to criteria and evidence-based definition and frameworkRon H Behrens
Department of Infectious and Tropical Disease, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London, UK
J Travel Med 17:153-62. 2010.... - Travel health. Part 1: preparing the tropical travellerBernadette Carroll
Travel Clinic, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London
Br J Nurs 17:1046-51. 2008..The review provides a perspective on the frequency and severity of problems and how nurses should manage travel associated disease... - Schistosomiasis prophylaxis in vivo using N,N-diethyl-m-toluamide (DEET)F Jackson
Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Mortimer Market Centre, London WC1E 6AU, UK
Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 97:449-50. 2003..Fifteen subjects, on a 3-week expedition to Lake Malawi in September 2001, applied 50% DEET to their skin after exposure to lake water. No subjects developed evidence of a new infection at 3-month follow-up... - Travel health. Part 3: illness in the returning travellerBernadette Carroll
Travel Clinic, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Mortimer Market, London, UK
Br J Nurs 17:1166-72. 2008..Details of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases post-tropical screening protocol for asymptomatic returned travellers are outlined... - Malaria clusters among illegal Chinese immigrants to Europe through AfricaZeno Bisoffi
Centro per le Malattie Tropicali, Ospedale S Cuore, Negrar, Verona, Italy
Emerg Infect Dis 9:1177-8. 2003..A further cluster of 12 was reported in August, 2002. Several immigrants traveled by air, making the risk of introducing sudden acute respiratory syndrome a possibility should such illegal immigrations continue... - Imported malaria and high risk groups: observational study using UK surveillance data 1987-2006Adrian D Smith
HPA Malaria Reference Laboratory, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 6AU
BMJ 337:a120. 2008..To examine temporal, geographic, and sociodemographic trends in case reporting and case fatality of malaria in the United Kingdom... - Risk assessment and disease prevention in travelers visiting friends and relativesSonia Y Angell
Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Control, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, NY 10007, USA
Infect Dis Clin North Am 19:49-65. 2005..As such, increased efforts to prevent VFR traveler morbidity serve the individual while also contributing to global public health... - A description of travel medicine in general practice: a postal questionnaire surveyNourieh Hoveyda
North Hampshire PCT, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK
J Travel Med 11:295-9. 2004..National protocols with validated information resources, set standards of training, along with adequate consultation time for educating, advising, and prescribing, will lead to improved health of the traveling public... - Airline crews' risk for malaria on layovers in urban sub-Saharan Africa: risk assessment and appropriate prevention policyNeville J Byrne
Health Services, British Airways, Harmondsworth, UK
J Travel Med 11:359-63. 2004..The longer layovers, of 3 or 4 nights, in some East African rosters provided greater opportunity for discretionary leisure activity away from protected hotel environments, and this needs to be considered in a risk assessment... - Illness in travelers visiting friends and relatives: what can be concluded?Ron H Behrens
Clin Infect Dis 44:761-2; author reply 762-3. 2007 - Latest advances in travel medicineFederico Busonero
Hospital for Tropical Disease, London
Practitioner 250:55-6, 58-60. 2006