How Can We Keep Immigrant Travelers Healthy? Health Challenges Experienced by Canadian South Asian Travelers Visiting Friends and Relatives

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4667945
AutoresRachel D Savage (University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada), Rachel Savage (0000-0002-2746-373X, University of Toronto, autor de correspondencia), Laura C Rosella (0000-0003-4867-869X, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada), Natasha S Crowcroft (0000-0002-6761-8783, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada), Jasleen Arneja (0000-0003-1913-6699, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada), Eileen De Villa (University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada), Maureen Horn (0009-0005-6570-6703, Peel Public Health, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada), Kamran Khan (0000-0001-9963-0616, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada), Monali Varia (Peel Public Health, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada)
Año2018
Volumen28
Número4
Páginas610-623
Fecha de publicación2018-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaQualitative Health Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1049-7323 • E-ISSN: 1552-7557
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1049732317746381
PMID29239271
OpenAlexW2775140627
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas30

Immigrant travelers who visit friends and relatives (VFR travelers) experience substantially higher rates of travel-related infections than other travelers, in part due to low uptake of pretravel health advice. While barriers to accessing advice have been identified, better characterization is needed to inform targeted interventions. We sought to understand how South Asian VFR travelers perceived and responded to travel-related health risks by conducting group interviews with 32 adult travelers from an ethnoculturally diverse Canadian region. Travelers positioned themselves as knowledgeable of key health risks, despite not seeking pretravel health advice. Their responses to risks were pragmatic and rooted in experience, but often constrained by competing concerns, including rushed travel, familial obligations, cost, and a desire to preserve authentic experiences. Moving beyond risk awareness to reinforcing the value of medical advice and intervention, in a manner that is sensitive to these unique concerns, is needed when delivering tailored health promotion messages to VFR travelers

Environmental health · Family medicine · Geography · Health promotion · Immigration · Medical advice · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Public health · Travel medicine · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma · Nursing · Psychology · Travel-related health issues