Travel medicine - Definition and Overview

Travel medicine or emporiatrics is the branch of medicine that deals with health problems of international travelers.

Major content areas of travel medicine include the global epidemiology of health risks to the traveler, vaccinology, malaria prevention, and pre-travel counseling designed to maintain the health of the approximately 600 million international travelers.

The field of travel medicine encompasses a wide variety of disciplines including epidemiology, infectious disease, public health, tropical medicine, high altitude physiology, travel related obstetrics, psychiatry, occupational health, military and migration medicine, and environmental health.

Special itineraries and activities include cruise ship travel, diving, mass gatherings (e.g. the Hajj), and wilderness/remote regions travel.

See also

• Tropical disease

External links

• Emporiatrics: An Introduction to Travel Medicine (http://www.vh.org/adult/provider/internalmedicine/TravelMedicine/TravelMedHP.html) - from Virtual Hospital
• Travelers' Health (http://www.cdc.gov/travel/) - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - includes information on outbreaks, specific diseases, recommended vaccinations
• Traveler's Health (http://medlineplus.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/travelershealth.html) - MedlinePlus
• GIDEON (http://www.GIDEONonline.com/) Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Network

Organizations

• The International Society of Travel Medicine (https://www.istm.org/)
  • Travel Medicine Body of Knowledge (https://www.istm.org/trav_med_exam/body.aspx)