- Certificate of Travel Medicine
- DPHTM Research on travel medicine
- Departmental publications on Travel Medicine
- Primer of Travel Medicine
- 1. Travel Health Online (TRAVEX)
- The Travex database has been the industry standard in
North America
for travel health professionals. Shoreland, the owners of
Travex, has now
made this database accessible on-line to the Internet
user. This is a very
comprehensive database of use to both the traveller and
the travel health
professional.
- 2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
- CDC has very high quality travel health data. Data is
accurate, reliable,
and reflects US government policy.
- 3. International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM) site.
- This is a useful site for accessing data for the
travel medicine professional.
Data is accurate, reliable and up to date. It has links
to reliable non-ISTM
sources and to travel medicine clinic home pages. The
Travex database can
be accessed via this site. Although the ISTM is an
international organisation,
the site reflects ISTM's North American origins. It has a
comprehensive
listing of travel medicine physicians based in USA.
- 4. Australasian College of Tropical Medicine (ACTM) gopher.
- This contains good quality data of relevance to
travel health for the
health professional, not just the public. It also has
links to good quality
sources on travel medicine. The National Health and
Medical Research Council
recommendations on malaria prophylaxis for Australians
can be found here.
- 5. Medical Advice Service for Travellers Abroad (MASTA).
- The MASTA home page is probably of more use for the
traveller than the travel medicine practitioner since the
data provided free is fairly basic. More comprehensive
data has to be purchased from MASTA.
- 6. Lonely Planet.
- This site has some useful travel health related data
designed more for the traveller than for their physician.
- 7. Outbreak WWW Site.
- This privately operated site, as well as having
information on outbreaks, has good quality data on many
diseases of concern to travellers.
- 8. Medical On Line, travel page.
- This page is of little value at the time of writing since it contains only a short list of links.
- 9. International Travel and Health.
- The WHO Yellowbook is now on-line in English, Spanish and Japanese. This very useful publication gives data on hazards and vaccine requirements for international travel and for individual countries.
- 10. Yahoo Travel Health.
- Although a metadirectory and not a primary source of travel related data, the Yahoo Travel Health page does contain useful links.
- 11. Travel Health Information Service.
- This private site has a comprehensive body of original information on various aspects of travel health, some of which are rarely available; e.g., sun exposure and use of scunscreens, high altitute problems, and travel insurance.
- 12. High Altitude Health.
- This site at Princeton has comprehensive information on the health problems of high altitude travel.
- 13. Healthy Flying with Diana Fairechild.
- A site devoted to the problems of flying and how to overcome them. The data provided is possibly not comprehensive enough to be of use to medical practitioners, but it would be useful for the inexperienced air traveller.
- 1. CDC, country data.
- Good quality comprehensive data with the authority of
the world's leading
organisation for control of infectious diseases.
- Open CDC's global disease map
- Open CDC's global disease map
- 2. Travel Health Online, Country Profiles.
- The US Department of State Consular Advice is
included with each country
profile.
- 3. Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).
- The PAHO Web site deals with the Americas only, and
is designed for
the health professional. It has very detailed country and
regional data,
including excellent overviews of significant
diseases.
- 4. Staying healthy in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
- Quite a comprehensive document, but aimed more at the
informed traveller
than the health professional.
- 5. US State Department Travel Advisories.
- All countries in the world have one or more databases. A very
useful
site for reports on civil unrest and personal risks to travelling
US
citizens. The updates issued periodically to the Travel
Advisories
mailing list are stored here. In addition this site contains
useful
information on legal topics particularly relevant to US
citizens.
- 6. Australian Consular Advise.
- The Australian Government has a site with the official
consular
advice for Australians. All countries in the world have a file
giving
details on legal requirements, civil unrest, and risks to
Australian
citizens. In addition it has a general travel advice section.
The advisories seem less comprehensive than those from the US
Consul.
- 7. CIA World Fact Book.
- The CIA World Fact Book (yes, it is what it says it is!)
contains a
wealth of statistics for each country, and summarised information
for
global regions. There is no specific travel health data per se,
but one
gets a very comprehensive idea of the nature of the country, its
economy,
infrastructure, population statistics including crude health
indices, and
its politics.
- 8. US Dept of State Country Background Data.
- Country data made
available by the
US State Department.
- 9. USAID Country Data.
- Here one can access data on USAID projects, including health
projects.
Background briefings particularly for the health projects often
provide
useful information about country specific problems. Information
can also
be obtained by query. Information is available only for countries
with
projects run by USAID. Similar data, but with some differences,
is
available at the USAID WWW site at
http://www.info.usaid.gov/regions. The
USAID gopher and WWW pages are closely interlinked.
- 10. International Federation of the Red Cross.
- Both contain press reports and Situation Reports on civil and
natural
disasters of interest to IFRC. The Situation Reports are more
comprehensive than the press reports. Situation reports are now
in Acrobat
format on the WWW server, but ASCII on the IFRC Gopher.
- 11. Internet Disaster Information Center.
- This site has reports on natural and civil disasters as well as links to other disaster sites. It does not appear to have an inbuilt search engine, but countries are arranged alphabetically.
- 12. Country vaccination requirements and Country hazards.
- These are two useful sections from the WHO Yellowbook, International Travel and Health. Recommendations are the official WHO recommendations.
- 13. Human Rights Reports by country.
- Each country has a comprehensive report which describes the status of human rights in principle and practice in that country. Very comprehensive and interesting data and quite useful for the traveller, particularly those travelling independently.
- 14. Data on countries with AusAID projects.
- AusAID is the Australian Assistance and International Development organisation funded by the Australian Government. This site contains good information on the Pacific and other regions from an Australian perspective.
- 1. ProMED Mailing List
- (see Email
lists).
- 2. ProMED Archives.
- This site contains all the posting from ProMED in a
searchable archive.
- 3. Outbreak Page.
- The Outbreak site is run by David Orstein and
volunteers. It has information
on major outbreaks from all regions. The target audience
appears to be
the educated lay person.
- 4. WHO Outbreak Page.
- The WHO has global statistics on diseases,
particularly in developing
countries, on outbreaks, and WHO official
recommendations. It also has
the Weekly Epidemiological Record, a publication that
reports on global
disease trends and events including epidemics.
- 5. UK Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre.
- Weekly report on diseases from the UK Government.
Department of Health
also has Health of the Nation, a white paper, available
on-line at
http://www.open.gov.uk/doh/hon.htm#hontop.
- 6. Communicable Diseases Intelligence (CDI).
- This journal focusses on communicable disease in
Australia and New
Zealand, but does have summaries of disease outbreaks
outside Australia.
- 7. EuroSurveillance.
- This is a site that contains the European
Communicable Disease Bulletin
on behalf of the European Union. The site has a
comprehensive overview
of vaccination schedules in European countries.
- 8. US Consul Travel Advisories.
- Brief references to major epidemics are occasionally circulated by Travel Advisories.
- 1. International Travelers Clinic at Medical College of Wisconsin.
- The ITC clinic has reliable information on infectious
diseases, as well as some unique pages, Travelling While
Pregnant, Altitude Sickness, Auto Accidents,and Motion
Sickness.
- 2. Travellers' Medical and Vaccination Centre (Aust.).
- A very comprehensive site with accurate and up to date information, and a focus on the needs of Australian travellers. The TMVC site is unique in addressing the risks to travellers from vehicular accidents. TMVC also send out periodic alerts on risky events in their Travel Health News.
- 3. Tropical Medicine Bureau.
- This Irish site has original data on a range of tropical diseases. It also has a series of email news groups where people can post questions or comments on a range of tropical medicine and travel medicine related topics (e.g., Tropical Travellers' Lounge, Insect Bite Forum, Malaria Forum, and Vaccination Forum). Medical questions posted on these groups are usually answered by a medical practitioner.
- 1. CDC - Cruise Ship inspections
- This is a US Government service that provides reports on the conditions of cruise ships servicing US ports. The key document with scores on individual inspections is located at ftp://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/ship_inspections/shipscor.txt and is accessible via the CDC WWW Travel page or directly via ftp.
- 13. Electronic Maps at the University of Texas Library.
- Maps for all countries in the world are available here. Some are based on the CIA Fact Book maps; others are not. In general the electronic maps are useful for the broad overview, but detailed maps are hard to locate, although there are a smattering of city maps here too.
- 1. NewsShare.
- NewsShare is the newsletter of the ISTM, and the
complete newsletter
is available on the Internet. NewsShare can be read
on-line in ASCII and
downloaded as ASCII, or in Acrobat format.
- 2. Journal of Travel Medicine.
- Starting from 1996 all issues of JTM are on line
although only abstracts
of selected articles are made available.
- 3. Emerging Infectious Diseases.
- EID is an electronic journal focussing on emerging
infectious diseases
with 4 issues per year. The compete text is available
from the CDC Web
pages by ftp in Acrobat format, Postscript or ASCII. Each
issue in ASCII
can be viewed on-line at the ACTM gopher at
gopher://gopher.jcu.edu.au
in the path Tropical Medicine Publications / CDC
Publications / Emerging
Infectious Diseases.
- 4. Morbidity Mortality Weekly Report.
- The MMWR is published weekly by CDC, and often has data of relevance to travel medicine. MMWR is available in Acrobat format from the CDC Web site or in ASCII from gopher://cwis.usc.edu in path Health Sciences / Medical and Health-Related Electronic Periodicals / Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. By subscribing to the mailing list lists@list.cdc.gov, or to ProMED, one can receive the table of contents of MMWR as each issue becomes available (see Email Lists below).
- 5. Weekly Epidemiological Record.
- WER gives a global overview of disease, including
outbreaks. It is
available only in Acrobat format. By subscribing to the
WER-TOC mailing
list (see Email Lists
below), or to ProMED
one can receive the table of contents of each issue of
WER as it becomes
available.
- 6. Communicable Diseases Intelligence.
- CDI contains data on communicable disease of
relevance to Australia
and New Zealand, including overseas events. CDI is issued
biweekly, and
is available as ASCII, or in Acrobat (*.pdf) format. The
files are also
available by ftp from ftp://ftp.health.gov.au/pub/CDI/.
CDI cannot be searched,
but a TOC for each issue is available at
http://www.gov.au/hfs/pubs/cdi/cdicont.htm.
- 7. Communicable Diseases Report
- CDR contains information on communicable diseases in the UK. CDR is
produced weekly, with monthly reviews, and is available only by ftp.
Copies of CDR cannot be searched on-line. Accessing the report is
fairly tedious because of this limitation.
- 8. European Communicable Diseases Bulletin.
- This is a publication of the European Union and contains information
on communicable diseases relevant to the counties of the European
Union.
It also gives links to the on-line communicable disease bulletins of member countries.
- 9. Travel Health News.
- This newsletter produced by TMVC deals with topics of current interest, with a focus on high risk events in the Pacific and southeast Asia. One can subscribe to Travel Health News at the site and receive notification of new alerts by email.
- 1. TravelMed is a mailing list restricted to members of the ISTM. It is a moderated list which commenced in April 1996, and in June 1996 had about 100 subscribers. The travel medicine focus makes it uniquely valuable to travel medicine practitioners.
- 2. ProMED is the leading mailing list for disseminating and collating information on emerging diseases. particularly outbreaks. This is a moderated mailing list of good quality. It now has over 11,500 subscribers from 110 countries. For travel medicine practitioners ProMED is an excellent way of staying ahead of the clients!
- 3. Travel-Advisories. This list distributes updates on the USA Consular recommendations for USA citizens. It is particularly useful in monitoring risks from civil unrest and natural disasters. It does provide some basic data on medical problems per se, but this is usually too basic to be of assistance to the travel health practitioner. One cannot send messages to Travel-Advisories. It is a distribution only list, not a discussion list.
- 4. Morbidity Mortality Weekly Report, Table of Contents
- MMWR, TOC is emailed to subscribers once a week.
- 5. Weekly Epidemiological Record, Table of Contents
- WER, TOC is emailed to subscribers when each issue is available on the Web.
- 6. Outbreak-Announce
- A distribution list about outbreaks run by volunteers, led by David Orstein.
- International Society for Travel Medicine
- Australasian College of Tropical Medicine - Travel Medicine SIG
- Travel
Medicine
- This subject is offered by the Department of Public Health and Tropical Medicine for those wishing to gain theoretical skills in travel medicine. It is taught once a year as an external subject with a four day sandwich block. Students are health professionals, predominantly doctors, working or intending to work as travel health advisors. Travel Medicine is the major subject in the Certificate of Travel Medicine offered by James Cook University.
- Medical Student Elective in Tropical and Travel Medicine
- An elective in travel and tropical medicine is offered to 4th year medical students at the University of Tasmania.
- Travel medicine to Peter
Leggat (Peter.Leggat@jcu.ed
u.au)
- Internet resources for travel medicine to Rick
Speare (Richard.Speare@jcu.edu.au)
The DPHTM Travel Medicine Home Page is designed to assist travel medicine practitioners in using the internet to offer a sophisticated travel medicine service. Doctors and physicians interested in travel medicine can use the links in this file to keep ahead of their clients and their less internet literate colleagues.
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Sites with Comprehensive Travel Health Data
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Sites with Regional Data
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Sites with Data on Outbreaks
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Travel Medicine Clinics on the Web
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There are a number of sites on the WWW that list home pages of travel medicine clinics. Here I have listed only those travel medicine clinics sites that provide original data of interest to travel medicine practitioners.
Other Data Useful to Travel Health
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This is efficient as it allows busy people to decide
whether the current edition is of relevance. MMWR can be searched
at the CDC site.
[Back to TOC] [DPHTM activities in Travel Medicine] [Sites with comprehensive travel health Data] [Sites with regional data] [Sites with data on outbreaks] [Travel medicine clinics on the Web] [Other data bases relevant to travel medicine] [Electronic journals relevant to Travel Medicine] [Travel Medicine Organisations] [Courses in Travel Medicine] [Enhance your travel medicine practice]
Subscribers to Travel-Advisories receive updates as they occur. The general USA consular information on each country is changed only every couple of years, but emergency updates are issued as needed. These updates deal mainly with civil disturbances particularly as they affect US citizens, but information on natural disasters and epidemics are also issued.
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