The role of nurses in travel medicine from the viewpoint of travellers' behaviour and activities at the destination

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Bauer, Irmgard
Irmgard Bauer
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Travel Medicine is primarily concerned with vaccinations and prophylaxis. However, there are a number of health problems that are not triggered by infectious agents but by travellers' behaviour and actions during the journey and at the destination. Lacking pills against imprudent behaviour, it is the purpose of comprehensive travel health education to alert to potentially harmful situations and suggest appropriate risk-minimising health behaviour. Health promotion and education are major roles within the professional scope of nurses. This places nurses at the forefront of travel health education and makes them indispensable in clinical travel health practice. A version of the following discussion was presented at the 8th APTHC in Nara in October 2010.

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