Analysis of the Prevention of Travel-Related Illness on the Basis of the Recent Achievements of Travel Medicine

Abstract

When we survey the possibilities of prevention in travel medicine, it soon becomes clear that the “classical” or “infectology-oriented” approach of the prevention (vaccination, chemoprophylaxis, pretravel advice) cannot respond to all peritravel medical problems. These newly arisen challenges require a new approach to the travel medicine, mainly in the field of prevention, treatment and management of the travel-related illnesses. Although the travellers are still exposed to various infectious diseases, which are mostly preventable by the primary prevention methods (biomedical prophylaxis), yet, the majority of the travellers suffer non-infectious diseases and fall ill or suffer accidents by other, travel-related factors. Moreover, the predominant destination is Europe for an average Hungarian traveller. The travellers, whose destination is not any tropical or third-world country, the adventure travellers, pursuers of extreme sports, the chronic patients all require the same-leveled peritravel (prevention-...