Structured Summary
Abstract
Multidisciplinary field focusing on prevention of infectious diseases and patient safety during international TRAVEL. Key element of patient's pre-travel visit to the physician is a health risk assessment.
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Synonyms
4 entry terms
- Medicine, Emporiatric
- Emporiatric Medicine
- Medicine, Travel
- Emporiatrics
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Aspects Covered
12 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.
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Indexing Annotation
the specialty; TRAVEL-RELATED ILLNESS is also available; do not confuse with TRAVEL NURSING - nursing practice in which nurses travel to work in temporary positions
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History Note
2010; for MEDICINE, EMPORIATRIC & EMPORIATRICS use TRAVEL 1993-2009
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Previous Indexing
- Travel (1999-2009)
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WA 108
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Travel Medicine. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D057236. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D057236
- Travel Medicine. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travel_medicine
- Travel Medicine. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q919582