Contraceptive counselling: an essential travel medicine service
Author(s) -
Summer L. Martins,
Christy M. Boraas
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of travel medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.985
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1708-8305
pISSN - 1195-1982
DOI - 10.1093/jtm/taaa023
Subject(s) - medicine , competence (human resources) , health care , nursing , family medicine , travel medicine , service (business) , marketing , psychology , social psychology , psychiatry , economics , economic growth , business
Non-physician healthcare practitioners are increasingly providing pre-travel care, including completing risk assessments and prescribing medications and vaccines. While this increases pre-travel care access, the quality of this care must be ensured. Doing so requires translation of existing prescribing competencies and best practices in competence development into policies regulating pre-travel care.
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