Bangkok Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.
School of Medicine, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland.
Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2022 Jul 5;107(2):492-494. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.22-0177. Print 2022 Aug 17.
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a rapid increase in international travel. Travel medicine is a branch of preventive medicine focusing on risk assessment pre-travel, during travel and post-travel with the aim of promoting health and preventing adverse health outcomes. Travel medicine specialists inform travelers about potential health risks and mitigate infectious disease risks such as travelers' diarrhea, yellow fever, and malaria. Travel medicine topics were popular in the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene conferences between 2016 and 2020, and now comprise approximately 2% of all presentations. Most topics related to the post-travel assessment (50%), followed by diseases contracted during travel (26%), and pre-travel assessment and consultation (24%). Our analysis of the 10 sub-domains of travel medicine issues found that malaria (26%) and immunization (12%) were represented to the greatest extent. We anticipate that both travel and tropical medicine fields will regain their popularity after recovery from the pandemic.
在 COVID-19 大流行之前，国际旅行迅速增加。旅行医学是预防医学的一个分支，专注于旅行前、旅行中和旅行后的风险评估，旨在促进健康和预防不良健康后果。旅行医学专家向旅行者告知潜在的健康风险，并减轻旅行者腹泻、黄热病和疟疾等传染病的风险。在 2016 年至 2020 年期间，旅行医学主题在美国热带医学和卫生学会会议上很受欢迎，现在约占所有演讲的 2%。大多数主题与旅行后评估（50%）相关，其次是旅行期间感染的疾病（26%）和旅行前评估和咨询（24%）。我们对旅行医学问题的 10 个子领域进行了分析，发现疟疾（26%）和免疫接种（12%）的占比最大。我们预计，旅行医学领域和热带医学领域在大流行后恢复后将重新受到欢迎。
