Abstract
The global travel burden leads to a significant increase in the number of infants and children travelling to epidemiologically risky areas, which is associated with increasing incidence of travel-related health problems and morbidity. Our aim is to identify potential travel-related health hazards and prevent them by targeted and cost-effective interventions.
Despite the fact that pre-travel consultation is often considered by patients and even medical professionals to be mere "pre-travel vaccination", recent epidemiological data suggests that the majority of potential health hazards, including severe and life-threatening ones, are related to infections not preventable by vaccines, to non-infectious diseases or to injuries. Thus, high-quality pre-travel consultation should include non-infectious hazards as well and respect potential differences between age groups.