Time to recognize the positive impact and health benefits of mass gatherings

I would like to comment that although the travel medicine literature has explored health care provision at events and views mass gatherings as posing significant risks to the health of visitors [1], there is very little empirical research from a positive health perspective especially in relation to voluntary risk taking. The consumer experience of festivals, has been suggested to be an escape from the self and the disenchantment of the tedium of daily life, enabling a release and sense of freedom that people also experience when on vacation and travelling.

Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - June 26, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Cate Wood Source Type: research