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Public Health Entomology Preparedness
Published in Jerome Goddard, Public Health Entomology, 2022
Travel medicine issues are usually handled by health departments, private travel medicine clinics, or travel medicine departments at large medical institutions or medical schools. These health experts advise international travelers about the health risks associated with places they plan to visit and offer vaccinations or prophylactic treatments to help avoid illness while traveling. The standard reference for healthcare providers advising such travelers is the Yellow Book.27 In addition, the CDC has a very useful webpage dedicated to traveler’s health, which has health information for over 200 international destinations, diseases related to travel, and vaccinations.28 Persons planning trips overseas, and especially to tropical countries, should contact their local health department for advice or make an appointment with a travel medicine expert at a local medical center.
Sexual and Gender-Based Violence
Published in Miriam Orcutt, Clare Shortall, Sarah Walpole, Aula Abbara, Sylvia Garry, Rita Issa, Alimuddin Zumla, Ibrahim Abubakar, Handbook of Refugee Health, 2021
Where travel medicine services are offered, people on the move should be offered hepatitis B vaccination prophylactically, not only because they are a group vulnerable to sexual violence, but because they may be travelling in harsh and crowded conditions where they are likely to come into contact with infected blood.
Angiostrongylus
Published in Dongyou Liu, Handbook of Foodborne Diseases, 2018
Praphathip Eamsobhana, Hoi-Sen Yong
To date, human infections have been reported, among others, in Hong Kong, Japan, Philippines, Vietnam, India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Saipan, New Caledonia, Rarotonga, Tahiti, Vanuatu (New Hebrides), Loyalty Islands, Guam, New Britain, American Samoa, Western Samoa, Fiji, Marquesas, Mayotte and Reunion Islands, Egypt, Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Jamaica, Germany, and Italy [1]. Given the increasingly widespread travel of the populace, there is a trend that more and more travelers from nonendemic countries returning from A. cantonensis endemic areas are being diagnosed with cerebral angiostrongyliasis. In travel medicine, the disease has now been considered to be one of the possible neurological diseases that need differential diagnosis.
Sexual and reproductive health during international travel: Expectations and experiences among female university students
Published in Journal of American College Health, 2022
Summer L. Martins, Wendy L. Hellerstedt, Sonya S. Brady, Susan M. Mason
Among the gaps in the literature about student travelers is knowledge about pre-travel expectations about sexual activity. We addressed these gaps specifically because expectations can shed light on women’s awareness and preparedness for certain health risks and identify areas of need for pre-travel anticipatory guidance by travel medicine and other care providers. In our study, travelers surveyed prior to their departure largely did not expect to be sexually active or initiate a new sexual relationship. In our previous qualitative work with female student travelers meeting similar eligibility criteria, we found that women who expected to be abstinent saw sex as inconsistent with the purpose of their trip, did not think they would have opportunities to meet new sexual partners, and cited personal values related to abstinence and monogamy.13 Abstinence expectations were also common (61%) in a different study of Canadian students traveling internationally for Spring Break.23
Global mobility, travel and migration health: clinical and public health implications for children and families
Published in Paediatrics and International Child Health, 2021
Elizabeth E. Dawson-Hahn, Vaidehi Pidaparti, William Hahn, William Stauffer
Children frequently travel to destinations where they are at risk of malaria and yellow fever but only 3% seek information from travel medicine specialists [12,16]. Compared with adults, children travel for longer, present later to pre-travel care and are more likely to travel to the World Health Organization (WHO) Africa and South-east Asia regions where there is a greater burden of infectious disease than in other regions, suggesting that children are at greater risk of infectious disease than adults [12]. Although travel medicine is an established part of the healthcare system, many travellers seek information only from their primary care providers [15]. For example, 38% of travellers from Boston’s Logan International Airport sought travel advice from their primary care providers, while 30% received information from travel medicine specialists. Among VFR travellers, 57% received travel information from primary care providers. In the Bronx, New York, 90% of VFR travellers planned to go to an area endemic for malaria in the near future and over a third planned to travel imminently [17]. It is therefore imperative that primary care providers are equipped to provide sound travel health recommendations and give nuanced, culturally appropriate guidance to VFR families.
Exploratory study of the dispensing patterns of vaccines by a sample of community pharmacies in Southern Africa
Published in Expert Review of Vaccines, 2018
Lastly, the world is a global village, and borders are becoming increasingly porous. Travel medicine, which includes important travel vaccines, is a specialized and fast developing area. This is another opportunity for pharmacists to get involved, together with other members of the health care team, in an area that is directly linked to a patient’s medical history and current pharmacological treatment.