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3.Pre-travel medical consultation for international travelers.

Korean Journal of Medicine 2005;69(4):347-356

4.What It Takes To Set Up Travel Health Services: A Review From Countries With Established Service

Muhammad Haikal Bin Ghazali ; Shamsul Azhar Bin Shah ; Mohd Rizal Bin Abd Manaf

Malaysian Journal of Public Health Medicine 2017;17(3):47-57

As air travelling now becomes cheaper and available to almost all people of any walk of life, travelling across international borders is fast becoming a lifestyle of many. Having travel health service as part of health care services is important to address the issues of travel related illnesses among travellers. However, lacks of published guidelines pertaining to travel health service rendering many countries to overlook its importance. The aim of this paper is to review published literatures and authoritative websites on the components needed to develop guideline to establish travel health services. A systematic literature search was done using pre-specified keywords for literatures published between years 2000 – 2016. Literatures written in English and fully accessible were all included. No exclusion criteria was set before the search. Online authoritative websites pertaining to travel health were also referred. A total of six literatures ranging from expert opinion, review paper and original study, together with three authoritative websites related to travel health were reviewed. Among the important components needed to be considered for developing the guideline for establishing travel health services are to prioritise pre-travel health service, to set up specialised travel health clinic, to produce travel health/medicine specialist, to emphasize on continuous education and training of the practitioners and to apply multiagency and multidisciplinary approach with adequate fund for research in travel health. As a conclusion, policy makers should prioritise and select the most important components in developing guideline for travel health service.
Travel health service ; travel medicine ; guideline development

For a long while after World War II, travel medicine had sunk ro its lowest ebb in Japan. In the late 1980s, with nation's rapid economic development, national income rose rapidly the number of overseas travelers increased explosively, and many industries began to move their production bases to Asian countries. It was in this socioeconomic context that travel medicine came to be recognized again. In so-called developing, infectious diseases which are rarely seen in Japan and those characteristic in the tropical regions are still prevalent. In addition, new types of infectious disease entities occasionally spread very rapidly by travelers and give a shock to the world. Hence the importance of travel medicine increases. However, Japanese people take it for granted that their country or company protects their health. This is probably because of the universal national health insurance system and vaccination programs for preventing infectious diseases. Unlike Europeans and Americans, they hardly realize that one must protect one's health by oneself. In order to promote travel medicine from now on, a nationwide educational campaign which gives information to people on health risks in traveling abroad and that raises their awareness that one's health must be protected by oneself is necessary. The campaign requiers the collaboration of related medical societies, the travel industry and the administration.
Travel ; Medicine ; seconds ; Japan ; Health