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Public Health Importance of Emporiatrics: A Review
People travel all around the world to explore, trade, sojourn, etc. Millions of individuals cross national and international borders. Travel medicine services are offered by general practitioners, specialized travel clinics, or immunization centers. Epidemiology, illness prevention, and travel-relat...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10110409/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37082503 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.36343 |
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author | Mehendale, Ashok M Vaishnav, Lokesh Joshi, Shiv H Joshi, Abhishek |
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description | People travel all around the world to explore, trade, sojourn, etc. Millions of individuals cross national and international borders. Travel medicine services are offered by general practitioners, specialized travel clinics, or immunization centers. Epidemiology, illness prevention, and travel-related self-treatment are all included in the interdisciplinary field of travel medicine. The main objective is to keep travelers alive and in good health, by reducing the effects of illness and accidents through preventative measures and self-care. The danger to a traveler's health and well-being must be understood, and the travel medicine practitioner's job is to help their patient or client recognize and manage those risks. The absence of any disease or symptom does not always indicate good health. Chronic illness sufferers, including those with cancer, diabetes, and hypertension, can maintain a reasonable level of health and mobility. Travel medicine is a rapidly developing, extremely dynamic, multidisciplinary field that calls for knowledge of a range of travel-related illnesses as well as current information on the global epidemiology of infectious and non-infectious health risks, immunization laws and requirements around the world, and the shifting trends in drug-resistant infections. Pre-travel consultation aims to reduce the traveler's risk of disease and harm while on the road through preventive counseling, education, recommended drugs, and essential vaccines. Specialized medical guidance can help reduce the potential health risks of travel. Emporiatrics is not only used for traveling advice or things to be done during the period of the journey but it also creates room in implementing the interdisciplinary subject with new methods or development of new policies, technologies, and various programs to reduce unnecessary problems of the travelers, which will boost tourism. |
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spelling | pubmed-101104092023-04-19 Public Health Importance of Emporiatrics: A Review Mehendale, Ashok M Vaishnav, Lokesh Joshi, Shiv H Joshi, Abhishek Cureus Public Health People travel all around the world to explore, trade, sojourn, etc. Millions of individuals cross national and international borders. Travel medicine services are offered by general practitioners, specialized travel clinics, or immunization centers. Epidemiology, illness prevention, and travel-related self-treatment are all included in the interdisciplinary field of travel medicine. The main objective is to keep travelers alive and in good health, by reducing the effects of illness and accidents through preventative measures and self-care. The danger to a traveler's health and well-being must be understood, and the travel medicine practitioner's job is to help their patient or client recognize and manage those risks. The absence of any disease or symptom does not always indicate good health. Chronic illness sufferers, including those with cancer, diabetes, and hypertension, can maintain a reasonable level of health and mobility. Travel medicine is a rapidly developing, extremely dynamic, multidisciplinary field that calls for knowledge of a range of travel-related illnesses as well as current information on the global epidemiology of infectious and non-infectious health risks, immunization laws and requirements around the world, and the shifting trends in drug-resistant infections. Pre-travel consultation aims to reduce the traveler's risk of disease and harm while on the road through preventive counseling, education, recommended drugs, and essential vaccines. Specialized medical guidance can help reduce the potential health risks of travel. Emporiatrics is not only used for traveling advice or things to be done during the period of the journey but it also creates room in implementing the interdisciplinary subject with new methods or development of new policies, technologies, and various programs to reduce unnecessary problems of the travelers, which will boost tourism. Cureus 2023-03-19 /pmc/articles/PMC10110409/ /pubmed/37082503 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.36343 Text en Copyright © 2023, Mehendale et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Public Health Mehendale, Ashok M Vaishnav, Lokesh Joshi, Shiv H Joshi, Abhishek Public Health Importance of Emporiatrics: A Review |
title | Public Health Importance of Emporiatrics: A Review |
title_full | Public Health Importance of Emporiatrics: A Review |
title_fullStr | Public Health Importance of Emporiatrics: A Review |
title_full_unstemmed | Public Health Importance of Emporiatrics: A Review |
title_short | Public Health Importance of Emporiatrics: A Review |
title_sort | public health importance of emporiatrics: a review |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10110409/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37082503 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.36343 |
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