Starting, Organizing, and Marketing a Travel Clinic

Hill, David R.; Rosselot, Gail

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“…These efforts are essential to prepare GPs to work in the travel medicine field especially to equip them with knowledge and skills that include updating information of geography, infection related to travel, medicine and vaccine, risk of non-infectious diseases including environment, prevention and management, and post-travelling assessment. 16 Furthermore, they should also be equipped with information on emerging infectious diseases, antibiotics resistance, global climate, ecological concerns, and politics. 7, 17 Apart from language barrier, the fact that the majority of tourists are from developed countries with advanced health care services, they tend to expect similar standard of care while they were in Bali.…”

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Preparedness of general practitioners in providing health services to foreign tourists in Bali, Indonesia

Sawitri,

Yuliyatni

2017

PHPMA

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Background and purpose: Bali was visited by more than 4.9 million foreign tourists in 2016. To some extent foreign tourists may need health services during their travel. This study aims to describe perception of preparedness of general practitioners (GPs) to provide health services for foreign tourists. Methods: Surveys were conducted among foreign tourists who visited Bali in 2012 and among GPs in 2013. Self-administered questionnaires on the level of satisfaction were completed by 108 foreign tourists. Structured questionnaires exploring the travel medicine knowledge and English language proficiency were completed by 109 GPs. The experience of foreign patients was used to triangulate the response from GPs. Result: Good satisfaction in terms of capacity of GPs to provide quality services reported by foreign tourists was varied between 76% and 85%. Assessment of level of knowledge among GPs regarding travel medicine showed that 33% GPs were having good knowledge, 55.1% fair and 11.9% poor. The proportion of correct answer of several items were low, which included recommended vaccine (11%), management of jetlag (13,8%), symptoms of barotrauma during diving (13,8%), sunburn and protection (31,2%), malaria prevention (21%), and diarrhea management (27,5%). Good satisfaction of English communication reported by foreign tourists was between 65% and 78%. Meanwhile, 60% GPs believed to have good English communication with their foreign patients. Conclusion: Preparedness of general practitioners to deliver health services and in English communication to foreign tourists was generally sufficient. Knowledge of GPs on several aspects of travel medicine was insufficient.

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Preparedness of general practitioners in providing health services to foreign tourists in Bali, Indonesia

Sawitri,

Yuliyatni

2017

PHPMA

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“…Most travelers do not visit healthcare providers for pretravel health consultations despite CDC recommendations [ 2–4 ], because of lack of knowledge or concern about destination disease prevalence, insufficient time, or cost [ 2–4 ]. Furthermore, many commercial health insurance plans do not cover travel-related vaccinations and medications [ 5 ].…”

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Economics of Malaria Prevention in US Travelers to West Africa

Adachi¹,

Coleman²,

Khan³

et al. 2013

Clinical Infectious Diseases

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Enabling clinicians to easily find location-based travel health recommendations—is innovation needed?

Lash¹,

Walker²,

Lee³

et al. 2018

Journal of Travel Medicine

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The types of place names used by travelers to describe travel itineraries during pretravel consultations were often different from the ones referenced in travel health recommendations. This discrepancy means that clinicians must use additional maps, atlases or online search tools to cross-reference the place names given to the available recommendations. Developing new clinical tools that use geographic information systems technology would make it easier and faster for clinicians to find applicable recommendations for travelers.

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Starting, Organizing, and Marketing a Travel Clinic

Cited by 3 publications

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Preparedness of general practitioners in providing health services to foreign tourists in Bali, Indonesia

Preparedness of general practitioners in providing health services to foreign tourists in Bali, Indonesia

Economics of Malaria Prevention in US Travelers to West Africa

Enabling clinicians to easily find location-based travel health recommendations—is innovation needed?

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