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Health information for overseas travel

  • Document type:
    Publication
  • Author:
    Department of Health
  • Published date:
    18 October 2001
  • Primary audience:
    Professionals
  • Product number:
    0113223293
  • Gateway reference:
    2001
  • Pages:
    148
  • Copyright holder:
    Crown Copyright

Over 30 million trips abroad are made by UK residents each year, and travel to tropical countries and areas off the usual tourist tracks is increasing. This book aims to provide a one-stop source of information for health professionals about the common health risks to travellers and how to reduce them.

Advisory rather than prescriptive, it emphasises the need to assess the risks for the individual traveller. Risk behaviours are also covered, along with measures travellers themselves can take to protect their health abroad. Further sources of advice are provided for more specialised problems outside the scope of this book.

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