title: [Travel medicine].
abstract: Travel Medicine was inherited from Tropical Medicine and was organised around the development of intercontinental travels. It concerns all types of travellers, especially tourists, migrants and expatriates. It must be universal, scientific, but first of all preventive. Its aims to the information of all professionals concerned by health and tourism. Its goal is also the training of physicians and the education of travellers regarding their own responsibilities.
authors: Service des Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales, Hôpital Purpan, Toulouse, France.
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Armengaud
mesh_terms: D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D011315:Preventive Medicine; D014195:Travel
vernacular_title: La médecine des voyages.