Open AccessPatients with Chronic Diseases Who Travel: Need for Global Access to Timely Health Care Data
Author(s) -
Henrik Toft Sørensen
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
clinical epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.868
H-Index - 58
ISSN - 1179-1349
DOI - 10.2147/clep.s360699
Subject(s) - pandemic , medicine , covid-19 , tourism , medical emergency , health care , global health , public health , environmental health , economic growth , geography , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease , nursing , outbreak , pathology , economics , archaeology
Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, international travel is expected to increase in the future. Before the pandemic, the United Nations World Tourism Organization estimated that by 2030 nearly 2 billion people would travel internationally each year. This raises the risk of unavailable medical record information if a complication or an emergency occurs in another country (particularly problematic for the growing numbers of older travelers with multimorbidity). We propose that an international medical record containing current health information be developed to allay this additional risk of traveling.