travel medicine
Voyage health specialty
Travel medicine is a medical specialty focused on preventing and treating health problems associated with international travel.
It encompasses pre-travel consultations, vaccinations, advice on disease prevention, and care for illnesses acquired abroad: The travel medicine clinic recommended antimalarials for our trip to Kenya.
Also called travel health or emporiatrics.
- typhoidSalmonella-caused systemic infection
- altitude sicknessHypoxia from high elevation
- deep vein thrombosisClot in leg vessel
- choleraBacterial disease causing fatal dehydration
- prophylaxisPreventive medical treatment
vaccination · booster shots · immunization record · tropical diseases · malaria · jet lag · rabies · first aid kits · medical evacuation · Zika virus · motion sickness · hand hygiene · dengue fever · traveler's diarrhea · yellow fever · drug resistance · heat exhaustion · waterborne diseases
travel medicineprimary care
First-line medical services
family medicine · general practice · routine checkup · home healthcare · internal medicine