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 ...
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 ...
For travellers, appropriate vaccination is the mainstay of control....for the British Travel Health Association. References 1. Rosenstein NE, Perkins BA, Stephens DS. N ... travel and migration has helped the spread of meningococcal disease around the world. Serogroup A ... occurs in all countries and risk assessment is an important consideration before travelling ...
Contributed by Dr Charlie Easmon specialist adviser in travel medicine and medical director...prevention in travellers from the United Kingdom 2007. London, Health Protection Agency, January 2007 ... the centuries, partly because of public health measures (Mussolini drained the Pontine Marshes in Rome ... endemic in over 100 countries, which are visited by more than 125 million international travellers every ...
Adolescent health now has its own curriculum, but what does this mean for primary care? asks Dr...Improving adolescent health makes sense on many levels. Adolescence is a time of momentous bodily ... is a long-term investment in the doctor- patient relationship. Improving adolescent health will bring long-term health benefits, providing a golden opportunity to modify chronic disease risk factors ...
more. Supporting parents and carers Ms Blanchard and her team see children for routine health ...
, at the Well Travelled Clinic, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine....be reviewed on various websites such as the DoH National Travel Health Network and Centre, or Health ... . Clin Microbiol Rev 2002; 15(4): 595-612. Health Information for Overseas Travel 'Yellow Book'. National Travel Health Network and Centre, London, 2010. ISBN 978-095657920-1. Available at: www ...
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