The demand for travel health and travel medicine services is rapidly growing with the return levels of international travel. Patients are frequently turning to community pharmacies for advice on disease reduction and maintaining personal health whilst travelling. Pretravel preparation is important for many reasons one of which is supporting global health policies and strategies. In some countries, legislation has been devolved to allow pharmacists to prescribe medication and vaccinate travellers. However, this is not the situation globally and many countries place restrictions on this type of pharmacy practice. Amongst other objectives, this event raises awareness of pretravel consultation services that can be provided in a community setting without prescribing or vaccination and explores appropriate products for patient use.
Developing Global Pharmacist Travel Health Services
