Public Health Importance of Emporiatrics: A Review

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Mehendale, Ashok M. [1 ]
Vaishnav, Lokesh [1 ]
Joshi, Shiv H. [1 ]
Joshi, Abhishek [1 ]
机构
[1] Jawaharlal Nehru Med Coll, Datta Meghe Inst Higher Educ & Res, Community Med, Wardha, India
关键词
pre-travel consultation; emporiatrics; travel advice; travel health; mental health issues; travel guidelines; vaccines; travel medicine; TRAVEL MEDICINE; GUIDELINES; DISEASES;
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10.7759/cureus.36343
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R5 [内科学];
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1002 ; 100201 ;
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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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