Dr Michael Ingram reviews a new competency framework for nurses working in travel health...., it is travel health services. For the majority of surgeries, particularly where GPs have little knowledge or interest in the field, there is little doubt that patients are better served by a nurse-led travel health ... . If GPs are leaving the provision of travel health to practice nurses, this begs a number of questions ...
Changes in travel patterns and re-emerging diseases have increased the demand for travel health...of travel, and the increasing numbers of travellers visiting remote areas have created a new tier of health ... publications and resources have become available to help health professionals advise travellers. All ... issues The WHO s International Travel and Health is a core text in travel health medicine and it now ...
for travellers....is planned. The fact that a person is seeing a travel health provider or a primary healthcare provider ... Mumps, measles and rubella remain important diseases globally and unprotected travellers may ... of the combined MMR vaccine mean that many travellers may not be protected. Those born in the UK before 1960 have ...
Cases of dengue fever and chikungunya imported to the UK rose sharply last year, Health Protection...are available. The HPA advises travellers to ensure they take necessary precautions against mosquito bites when ... commonly among people in their 20s and were most commonly reported in travellers returning from India ... . Individuals diagnosed with chikungunya had most often travelled to India. In fact, compared with 2009 ...
There is a lot of confusing and contradictory advice out there about travel immunisations so here is a simple guide. There are three categories of travel vaccines: 1. Those that must always ... , these are vaccines that are a matter of public health and against imported disease. The list was contained in the old ...
Well-travelled patients often present with skin conditions. By Dr Emma Benton and Dr Rachael Morris-Jones...Travel Med 2006; 13: 145-52. 2. Hill DR. Health problems in a large cohort of Americans travelling ... ABSTRACT More individuals than ever before are travelling to tropical climates for work and leisure. Patients with acquired travel dermatoses are therefore presenting with increasing frequency ...
The returning traveller can pose particular challenges for a GP and the patient's recent destination is important. 1 For example, malaria is more likely in travellers from sub-Saharan Africa ... be the diagnosis in a returning traveller with fever until proved otherwise. Two further thick and thin films must ...
Dr Dipti Patel summarises the current advice on hepatitis B for UK travellers...of vaccine is not required unless the traveller remains at risk. Dr Patel is an occupational health ... -defined risk groups. Risk for travellers The risk of HBV infection for travellers is low, with estimated incidence of one case in 2,000 10,000 per month in short-term travellers, and one case in 1,000 per month ...
Health promotion is about giving patients advice that encourages them to stay healthy. It can come ... programmes. The RCGP s GP curriculum statements say that GPs have a crucial role to play in promoting health . Effective health promotion in primary care can help prevent the onset or delay the progression of diseases ...
of residents travelling to malaria endemic areas, UK research suggests....Researchers from the Health Protection Agency studied data from the Malaria Reference Laboratory ... travelling to malaria endemic areas increased from 593,000 visits in 1987 to 2.6 million visits in 2004. A large proportion of these visitors were from ethnic minorities travelling to see friends and relatives ...
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