title: [High altitude related health problems in travel medicine].
abstract: Giving travel advice to travellers visiting high-altitude destinations around the globe is daily routine in travel clinics. However, with the classical focus on vaccinations, traveller's diarrhoea, mosquito protection and malaria prophylaxis, altitude-related health problems are often neglected at counselling. The importance to communicate these problems when giving travel advice is impressively reflected by the high prevalence of altitude-related health problems among tourists visiting high-lying tourist destinations. This article aims at providing an overview of core aspects of acclimatization to altitude and prevention of altitude-related health problems and to exemplarily address practice-oriented problem destinations.
authors.affiliation: Schweizerisches Tropen- und Public Health-Institut, Basel und Universität Basel. andreas.neumayr@unibas.ch
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Neumayr
mesh_terms: D000531:Altitude; D000532:Altitude Sickness / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D014195:Travel; D057236:Travel Medicine / Q000379:methods*