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International Travel Preparation, Safety, & Wellness

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Johns Hopkins University

International Travel Preparation, Safety, & Wellness

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Whether you've traveled before or not, living and working overseas can be challenging. Learn how best to prepare and make the most of your time internationally. This course will prepare you to work and live overseas. It explores the epidemiology of common morbidity and mortality among travelers and examines key prevention, safety, and travel medicine principles and services to contextualize risks and maintain wellness. The course reviews applicable interventions, appropriate vaccines, and personal protection methods to prepare you to respond to expected and unexpected situations and will challenge you to examine travel health and safety priorities through case studies and discussions. The Honors Lesson will assist you with personal preparations for travel through the creation of a country-specific profile.

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Travel Health & Prevention

It's easier to stay healthy if you know how to anticipate potential challenges, minimize your risk, and access the care that you need.

Travel Health Overview3:32

Vector-Borne Diseases and Prevention16:36

Food and Waterborne Diseases19:26

Rabies, Altitude, and Sun Exposure6:30

Tales from the Field (Julie Denison)4:52

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Anna Kalbarczyk
Research Associate
International Health

[MUSIC]

Hi, and welcome to this lecture on travel, health and wellness.

I'm Anna Klabarczyk and I will be joined later by Dr.

Summer Rosenstock who will be talking to you a little bit about diarrhea.

In this first section, I want to give you an overview of all of the topics we'll

be covering in travel health.

And I think it's important to start with this overview, because travel

health is really, it's a specific sort of genre when we talk about health.

It's not like your standard personal health care.

There's something very unique and specific to it so I want to make sure that you have

an overarching view of what we're trying to get you to take away from this lecture.

And, the framework I want to provide is that, we're going to talk about a lot of

things but I don't think that all of these things are going to happen to you.

But I do think that one of them probably will.

And so it's best for you to be as prepared as possible for

that one thing that's likely to occur when you travel.

So some of this information will be more relevant to you for

upcoming travel than other information.

But the aim is to really prepare you in perpetuity.

The objective of this lecture is to specifically prepare you for

your pre-travel health consultation.

How you can talk with a travel doctor or with your personal doctor about any

concerns that you have depending on your location?

And then what you can do prevent illness while you're travelling.

I want you to apply decision making concepts from the framework that Dr.

Hynes provided in her prevent lecture to all of the material you see here.

So remember that a lot of your decision making is personal,

it's about your level of risk, right?

What it is you're willing to accept, and

it's also about your perception of what the risks really are.

So in this lecture we'll be talking about vector-borne diseases and

how to prevent them, whether that's vaccination, prophylaxis, behaviour.

We'll then move on to food and waterborne diseases and

have a conversation about diarrhea and diarrheal diseases.

In the third section we'll discuss rabies, altitude illness, and sun exposure.

And we'll wrap up with the conversation about injuries.

Before we start I want to remind you of the immunization algorithm for travelers,

and you've gone over this in a previous lecture.

But keep this algorithm in mind as we move through the rest of the health and

wellness content.

So again, on the left, you're considering what are the risks?

Are you at risk for yellow fever?

Are you at risk for food and waterborne illness?

The likelihood is that the answer to that question is yes no matter where you go.

Are you going to be staying somewhere for a very long time?

And do you have special risks based on where you are going to be located?

In this lecture, we will be covering most, but

not all of the illnesses that you see in this algorithm.

So we'll definitely be talking about yellow fever, hepatitis A, typhoid,

rabies, and Japanese encephalitis.

So now let's take a break and when we come back we will be talking about vector borne

diseases and how to prevent them while you're traveling.

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