Travel medicine is a new multilateral subject which are developing rapidly and are taken seriously by all countries in the world. Establishment of travel health care clinics is just a practice of travel medicine. As t...Travel medicine is a new multilateral subject which are developing rapidly and are taken seriously by all countries in the world. Establishment of travel health care clinics is just a practice of travel medicine. As the upsurge and development of tourism, international travellers required more diversified , more individuated and higherlevel medical succour and health care during travelling period . How to adapt to the changes of circumstances and tosatisfy the travellers’ requirement? It is very critical to establish and develop the travel health care clinics in welltravelled China and that was of realistic feasibility in the meantime. In this paper, four aspects were mainly discussed as follows: the background of China International Travel Health Care Association(CITHA) establishing travel health care clinics , the requirements, tasks and evaluation standards of establishment of travel health care clinics, the professional management and feasibility assessment of travel health care clinics. CITHA had organized experts to establish many travel health care clinics in 60 well - travelled cities and big ports all over the country. The service styles of these clinics differed from that of other specialized medical services supplied by hospitals. These clinics provided travel health care service to travellers in an all - round way during whole journey by centering on travellers, providing health care service mainly to touring parties, taking the population of some certain communities in ports as our working scope, aiming at travellers’ health, being directed by preventive medicine, providing integrated health service included health education, travel consultation, preventive inoculation, regular physical examination, medical service and succour and offering various articles for health care, etc. All of the general practitioners in these clinics had been received specialized training, and they were competent for the common medical service and succour, and to provide effective, economical and satisfactory medical an展开更多
文摘Travel medicine is a new multilateral subject which are developing rapidly and are taken seriously by all countries in the world. Establishment of travel health care clinics is just a practice of travel medicine. As the upsurge and development of tourism, international travellers required more diversified , more individuated and higherlevel medical succour and health care during travelling period . How to adapt to the changes of circumstances and tosatisfy the travellers’ requirement? It is very critical to establish and develop the travel health care clinics in welltravelled China and that was of realistic feasibility in the meantime. In this paper, four aspects were mainly discussed as follows: the background of China International Travel Health Care Association(CITHA) establishing travel health care clinics , the requirements, tasks and evaluation standards of establishment of travel health care clinics, the professional management and feasibility assessment of travel health care clinics. CITHA had organized experts to establish many travel health care clinics in 60 well - travelled cities and big ports all over the country. The service styles of these clinics differed from that of other specialized medical services supplied by hospitals. These clinics provided travel health care service to travellers in an all - round way during whole journey by centering on travellers, providing health care service mainly to touring parties, taking the population of some certain communities in ports as our working scope, aiming at travellers’ health, being directed by preventive medicine, providing integrated health service included health education, travel consultation, preventive inoculation, regular physical examination, medical service and succour and offering various articles for health care, etc. All of the general practitioners in these clinics had been received specialized training, and they were competent for the common medical service and succour, and to provide effective, economical and satisfactory medical an