[Travel medicine and its correlations with insurance medicine].
The author describes the basic ideas and skills of travel medicine, as a new discipline of medical science in Hungary. He also emphasizes the importance of the knowledge of assistance medicine (as a substructure of the travel medicine). The author points out that travel medicine should be assigned to the discipline of insurance medicine in Hungary. In respect of Hungary's joining the European Union, Hungarian doctors should be fully aware of the importance of the traveller's medical treatment.
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SOS Hungary Orvosi Szolgálat. soshungary@axelero.hu
D004635:Emergency Medicine; D005062:European Union; D006801:Humans; D006814:Hungary; D007348:Insurance, Health; D008511:Medicine; D013038:Specialization; D014195:Travel