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Vaccines for travelling minors: The ‘shot’ heard around the world

Author(s) -

Brian J. Ward

Publication year - 2001

Publication title -

paediatrics and child health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.55

H-Index - 43

eISSN - 1918-1485

pISSN - 1205-7088

DOI - 10.1093/pch/6.4.190

Subject(s) - license , developed country , pleasure , immunization , developing country , work (physics) , medicine , family medicine , advertising , pediatrics , business , psychology , economic growth , engineering , political science , environmental health , law , economics , immunology , mechanical engineering , population , neuroscience , antigen

The number of adults, children and adolescents who travel from the industrialized world to less industrialized countries for work or pleasure is steadily increasing. Travel immunizations for children are a critical element of pretrip planning. Occasionally, one of the most daunting aspects of an exotic trip or a foreign posting can be the logistics (and recriminations) associated with getting the family to a travel medicine clinic with sufficient lead time to ensure that all of the necessary immunizations are given before departure. The present paper reviews pertinent immunization information from three points of view: the travel clinic, the parent and (with license) the child.

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