Travel Medicine in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

• What is Travel Medicine?

      “The discipline devoted to the maintenance of the health of international travelers through health promotion and disease prevention”

• The era of Globalization has arrived…this year there will be 800 million of international travelers around the world. In this context, a new area of medicine focused in Travelers, Expatriates, and Migrants has emerged, named Travel Medicine.

• A new Medical Specialty Focused on:
• Travelers, Expatriates, Migrants, People traveling with Specials Needing (Medical Problems).
• Worldwide Epidemiology: aware of infectious disease risks and their magnitude, patterns of drug resistance, current outbreaks of illness, immunization, prevention of Tropical Diseases, management of the ill-returned traveler.

• Biannual Certification by The International Society of Travel Medicine.     
              www.istm.org
• Travel medicine = emporiatrics (em·po·ri·at·rics)
  [Gr. emporos one who goes on shipboard as a passenger + -iatrics]  that branch of medicine which treats of the health problems of international travelers.