Learning to live with ticks? The role of exposure and risk perceptions in protective behaviour against tick-borne diseases.

The purpose of this study is to analyse the role of risk perceptions and exposure for protective behaviour against tick bites and the related diseases Lyme borreliosis (LB) and tick-borne encephalitis (TBE), both of which are growing health concerns. We use data from a national survey in Sweden with...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Daniel Slunge, Anders Boman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6010238?pdf=render