Travel Health

RCN: COVID-19 (coronovirus)

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Fitfortravel: Coronavirus disease (Covid-19)

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Travel Health Pro: Covid-19: resources.

• Current coronavirus advice from NaTHNaC, PHE and FCDO, with links to international information sources.

Chiodini J, Grieve S, Stillwell A and Walker C (2023) RCN travel health nursing: career and competence development. London: RCN.

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Chiodini J H, Taylor F, Geary K, Lang S, Moore J, Ross D A, Evans D P, Britton A, Coley D, Anderson J, Rossanese A, Allen S P (2020) Good practice guidance for providing a travel health service. Glasgow: Faculty of Travel Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.

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Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (2022) Mental health and wellbeing abroad. Updated 2023. London: FCDO

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National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (2023) Clinical knowledge summary: immunizations & travel.

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UK Health Security Agency (2024) Guidelines for malaria prevention in travellers from the UK: 2023. London: UKHSA.

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World Health Organization (2012) International travel and health. Updated 2019. Geneva: WHO.

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Royal College of Nursing (2023) Female genital mutilation: RCN guidance for travel health services. London: RCN.

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Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Travel advice

• A-Z by country or territory.
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Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Travel aware - advice for going abroad

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National Travel Health Network and Centre (NaTHNaC)

• Service commissioned by Public Health England providing travel health information, an advice line and news updates for health professionals.
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Fitfortravel

• Free up to date health information for the UK public on avoiding illness and staying healthy when travelling abroad. Maintained by the Travel and International Health Team of Public Health Scotland.
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UK Health Security Agency: Immunisation

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TravelHealthPro factsheets

• Travel health resources from NaTHNaC.
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We would like to thank the RCN Public Health Nursing member community for their input into the development of this subject guide.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2023) CDC Yellow Book 2024: health information for international travel. New York: Oxford University Press.

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Dawood R (2012) Travellers’ health: how to stay healthy abroad. 5th edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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Johnson C (2015) Oxford handbook of expedition and wilderness medicine. 2nd edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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Keystone J, Kozarsky P, Freedman D, Nothdruft H, Connor B (2019) Travel medicine. 4th edn. Philadelphia: Elsevier Saunders.

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Sandord C, Pottinger P and Jong E (editors) (2016) The travel and tropical medicine manual. 5th edn. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

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Torresi J, McGuinness S, Leder K and others (2019) Manual of travel medicine. 4th edn. Singapore: Springer.

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Use these links to see details of books the RCN libraries hold on each topic.

• Malaria
• Travel health/ travel medicine
• Tropical medicine

Use these links for details of journal articles on each topic.

• Malaria and travel
• Travel health service / travel health nursing
• Travel vaccination
• Yellow fever and travel
• Zika virus and travel

Journals of interest for travel health. Use these links to see details of availability.

• Open access journal:
  International Journal of Travel Medicine
• Journal of Travel Medicine
• Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
• Open access journal:
  Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines