新冠肺炎疫情下旅行医学的机遇与挑战

Opportunities and Challenges of Travel Medicine during the COVID-19 Pandemic

新冠肺炎疫情在全球范围内持续流行,给旅行医学带来巨大挑战,增加了旅行健康风险,现有干预措施和健康建议无法完全满足旅行者需求。同时,新冠肺炎疫情也为旅行医学的发展提供了重要机遇。全社会人群对旅行健康重视程度提高,对干预措施更加配合。因此,旅行医学行业急需通过加强宣传引导、能力建设和行业规范等措施促进行业发展,从而降低传染病通过国际旅行传播的风险。

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has posed great challenges to travel medicine and increased travel health risk.The existing intervention measures and health advice are incapable of meeting the travelers’needs.From another perspective,COVID-19 pandemic has also provided great opportunities for the development of travel medicine.People in the whole society are paying more attention to travel health and cooperating more with intervention measures.Therefore,the travel medicine urgently needs to strengthen its publicity and guidance,capacity building and industry norms to promote the stable development of the industry,so as to reduce the risk of infectious diseases imported through international travel.