Introduction: Primary care practitioners and travel medicine physicians are primarily
responsible for identifying individuals who may be unfit for overseas travel and consulting …

Introduction: Travel medicine is devoted to the health of travelers who visit foreign countries.
It is an interdisciplinary specialty concerned not only with prevention of infectious diseases …

Background Traveling the world may result in infection with tropical or other travel‐
associated diseases. This applies increasingly also to people with immune‐compromising …

Almost 50 million persons visit another continent each year. It is mainly those 15-18 million
travelers from industrialized nations who visit or reside in developing countries that are at …

Travel is associated with health risks, particularly for those with underlying medical
conditions. In most cases these risks can be anticipated and mitigated with special attention …

Non‐infectious causes of death are common among travellers, with road injury and
drowning the most common injury‐related causes, together with cardiovascular and other …

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death among international travellers.
Practitioner knowledge of the effects of CVD on international travel is imperative in order to …

Travel medicine has emerged as a new field of medicine that involves pre-travel evaluation,
contingency planning during travel, and post-travel care. Its implementation showed major …

Objective To describe the medical conditions, travel plans, counseling, and medications
prescribed for high-risk international travelers. Patients and Methods This cross-sectional …

Background Patients with complex medical comorbidities travel for protracted periods to
remote destinations, often with limited access to medical care. Few descriptions are …