Please find links to pre-travel handouts for non-English speaking patients. We have made these handouts available in an attempt to improve the quality of travel medicine available to non-English speaking, and VFR (Visiting Friends and Relatives) patients.Hopefully these handouts will assist you in serving your patients, and ultimately, in decreasing travel related morbidity and mortality. These handouts have been peer-reviewed by travel medicine specialists and translated by bicultural, medically trained, professional interpreters.
Although we have done our best to produce an accurate and useful tool please contact Drs. Bill Stauffer and David Boulware with suggestions or corrections.
Languages:
Arabic
Burmese
Cambodian (Khmer)
Chinese
French
German
Hindi
Hmong
Nigerian (Ibo, Yoruba)
Oromo
Portuguese
Russian
Somali
Spanish
Swahili
Thai
All English Travel Handouts in one PDF file.
Individual Handouts:
Vaccines ("Shots") for Travel, the basics
How to avoid Malaria and diseases you
might catch from insects
How to prevent and treat Diarrhea while you
are traveling
Taking children with you on your trip?
Injuries, Accidents, and Medical Problems while
Traveling
Health Issues
with travel to the Hajj
Multiple language vaccine information handouts (VIS)
CDC Multilingual Site: Fact sheets in English/Multiple languages
CDC Guide for Travelers to Malaria-Risk Areas Handout
The University of Minnesota, in collaboration with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is pleased to offer an
American Society of Tropical
Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH)-accredited
Global Health Course: Diploma in
Clinical Tropical Medicine and Travelers Health
June 30th-
August 22nd,
2008
Minneapolis, Minnesota
These handouts were made possible through a grant from the Regions / HealthPartners' Foundation as well as through the donated time and effort of many individuals. We thank:
| Mohamud D Afgarshe | HealthPartners' Center for International Health |
| Stefan Collinet-Adler | Hennepin County Medical Center |
| Conni Conner | HealthPartners' Center for International Health |
| Susan Dicker | HealthPartners' Center for International Health |
| Xiaoqing Du | Community Integration Institute, University of Minnesota |
| Woei Y. Gary Eng | University of Minnesota |
| Phil Fischer | The Mayo Clinic |
| Fowzi Hassan | Independent |
| Deepak Kamat | Children's Hospital of Michigan |
| Angela Kuria | HealthPartners' Center for International Health |
| Ambika Mathur | Children's Hospital of Michigan |
| May Mua | HealthPartners' Center for International Health |
| John Murphy | University of Minnesota |
| Khin Khin Myo | Institute of Medicine I, Yangon, Myanmar |
| Mikhail Perelman | HealthPartners' Center for International Health |
| Jaime Lopes Rocha | Travel Clin, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Setor de Ciências da Saúde |
| Thomas Schmidt | MediScon worldwide - Hannover ,Germany |
| Andrea Summer | Medical College of South Carolina |
| Trang Vo | HealthPartners' Specialty Clinics |
| Top Wattanakit | School of Public Health, University of Minnesota |
| Chang-Jiang Zheng | Occupational & Environmental Medicine, Regions Hospital |
The information provided is meant to augment not substitute a pre-travel evaluation by a qualified travel medicine expert.
Further general travel information is available at www.cdc.gov/travel
There is further cross-cultural, immigrant health specific links to resources available.
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