Travel health
In 2005, 66 million UK residents travelled abroad. Travellers may be at increased risk of contracting infections which may not be as common, or exist at all, in the UK. They should therefore be prepared for such risks, and seek advice about their health before they go abroad.
Foreign travel has continued to increase since the 1980s. People may travel for all sorts of reasons including for holidays, to visit friends and relations, for business, and for study. The majority of UK residents travel to European countries but increasingly, people are travelling to more tropical destinations.
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Many different departments of the Health Protection Agency collect data about diseases that may be travel-related. The Travel and Migrant Health Section (TMHS) aims to co-ordinate and collate this data, to produce regular outputs of this information, and to develop other innovative approaches to the surveillance of travel-related illness in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
The TMHS works closely with the National Travel Health Network and Centre (NaTHNaC), and its work contributes to the evidence base for travel health advice in the UK.
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