Pre- and Post-Travel Medical Consultations

Deborah J. Mills (), Lani Ramsey and Luis Furuya-Kanamori
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Deborah J. Mills: Dr Deb The Travel Doctor
Lani Ramsey: Travel-Bug Vaccination Clinic
Luis Furuya-Kanamori: Australian National University

A chapter in Tourist Health, Safety and Wellbeing in the New Normal, 2021, pp 47-69 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter reviews the main topics that should be covered in a pre-travel medical consultation, noting that what the traveller might think is important may not necessarily correspond to what is needed for the best protection of their health and wellbeing during the journey. Pre-departure travel medicine excellence is not just knowing which vaccine is required, but also planning how best they can be administered and recorded, how to encourage safer health behaviours, advising on medical supplies, and gathering the evidence for constant improvement in outcomes for all types of travellers. We also describe the main travel-related illnesses that a health provider may encounter during a post-travel consultation. The cessation of most international travel, resulting from worldwide measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, presents particular challenges to travel medicine providers, especially those more specialised. In this chapter, we also discuss how the requirements of the new normal may impact pre- and post-travel medical consultations.

Keywords: Travel medicine; Pre-travel consultation; Vaccinations; Health advice; COVID-19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-5415-2_3

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