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Jason Lohr1, Norman Benjamin Fredrick2, Leesha Helm3
1CMO, SAC Health System, 250 South G Street, San Bernardino, CA 92410, USA; Family Medicine Residency Program, Loma Linda University, 1200 California Street, Suite 240 Redlands, CA 92374, USA.
Primary Care
|August 18, 2018
Summary
Most international travelers receive medical advice from their regular doctors, not travel clinics. Pretravel consultations aim to assess and reduce health risks for global journeys.
Area of Science:
- Travel medicine
- Public health
- Preventive healthcare
Background:
- Primary care physicians (PCPs) are the main providers of travel health services.
- Only 10% of international travelers utilize specialized travel clinics.
- International travel encompasses diverse purposes including leisure, VFR (visiting friends and relatives), business, and education.
Purpose of the Study:
- To outline the objectives of pretravel consultations.
- To emphasize risk assessment and mitigation strategies for travelers.
- To highlight the role of PCPs in travel medicine.
Main Methods:
- Review of current practices in travel healthcare.
- Analysis of traveler demographics and travel purposes.
- Identification of key components of pretravel medical advice.
Main Results:
- PCPs manage the majority of travel health needs.
- Travel clinics serve a small fraction of the traveling population.
- Pretravel consultations focus on risk identification and management.
Conclusions:
- Enhancing PCP knowledge in travel medicine is crucial.
- Improving accessibility and awareness of travel clinic services may be beneficial.
- Standardizing pretravel risk assessment protocols is recommended.
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