Travel Health
Comprehensive & fully resources travel health and security service for employees who travel internationally on company business delivered at MOHS centre.
Those providing travel health services need to be better informed and up to date with best practice. It is the employers’ responsibility and duty to ensure that the health of employees is maintained while abroad .
Travel health (or ‘travel medicine’ as it is also called) is a new, rapidly expanding specialist area which is developing in response to globalization of the workplace.
A travel health service should include the following:
- A comprehensive travel health risk assessments to allow for the planning of services such as:
- Health advice
- Immunizations
- Malaria prevention and prophylaxisI C E S
- Provision of general travel health advice on the prevention and treatment of:
- Travellers diarrhea
- Prevention of mosquito bites
- HIV and blood-borne virus awareness in the travel context
- Information and education on, together with the prescription, provision and administration of “routine” travel vaccines including those recommended specifically for travel and updates of national schedule vaccines
- Information and education on, together with the prescription and provision of malaria chemoprophylaxis.
A more specialist travel health service should include all of the above with the addition of some (or all) of the following:
- Specialist advice for:
- The use of emergency standby malaria medication.
- Traveling with underlying medical conditions or who are travelling during pregnancy. This will include the prescription, provision and administration of vaccines to individuals with special needs.
- Travellers with complicated itineraries which may also require the prescription, provision and administration of more “unusual” travel vaccines.
- Prescription, provision and administration of yellow fever vaccine
- Provision and vending of travel health related equipment such as:
- Water purification filters
- Insect repellents
- Mosquito nets