Travel Health, or Travel Medicine, is a rapidly evolving speciality, impacted heavily by globalisation. It involves qualified health practitioners with specialised expertise in prevention, assistance (repatriation and medical treatment of travellers), wilderness medicine (e.g. high-altitude medicine, expedition medicine) and access to health care.
Some of the Travel Medicine disciplines include:
- Epidemiology
- Infectious disease
- Public health
- Tropical medicine
- High altitude physiology
- Travel related obstetrics
- Psychiatry
- Occupational medicine
- Military medicine
- Migration and refugee health
Areas considered in assessment and treatment are the seven ‘I’s:
- Immunization (pre-travel vaccination)
- Insects – nets, repellent, medication
- Ingestions – safe water and food
- Indescretion – sexually transmitted disease
- Injuries – safety, animals, accident prevention
- Immersion – infection (schistomiasis)
- Insurance – coverage, services, access
Lara Bowering
BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy, PGDip Travel Medicine, MSc Public Health
(MPNZ, MISTM, MPHANZ, MRSTMH)
Welcome to a new year and potentially another year of unknowns for health and wellbeing around the world. You may not be planning to travel internationally this year but there is always ways to keep you, your friends and your family healthy on even the shortest of trips. We are seeing a cross over and intertwining of the public health and travel medicine arenas like never before.
For those who plan to travel overseas, these pages will definitely have some helpful information, resources and links to external agencies, that you might like to use as you plan your trip.
We offer consultation face to face or online for your individual, family or corporate travel health needs.
If you are travelling overseas with a group we can assist with pre-travel vaccination advice, knowledge of specific destination health services, first aid kit preparation, travel insurance queries, travel wellbeing tips and the latest COVID-19 travel information.
LINKS TO SOME HELPFUL TRAVEL INFORMATION SITES:
WHO – travel advice from the World Health Organisation filtered by country or disease
CDC – the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention page on Traveler’s Health
STATE travel – the USA domestic state travel and tourism information site
WTTC – the World Travel and Tourism Council, a global council for economic and social contribution to tourism
UNWTO – the United Nations World Tourism Organization, includes initiativees to address economic and environmental sustainability of tourism as well as inclusive development
IATA Travel Centre – the International Air Transport Association traveler portal for everything you need to ‘know before you go’
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