March 3 marks Simplify Your Life Day – a day in the calendar that is all about offering easy tips and tricks to allow us all to live a simpler life. Given that the Pinpoint Travel Health system is all about simplifying the travel vaccination and antimalarial pre-trip planning process, we thought we should get reference this day and hopefully help simplify the lives of more people.
Simplify Your Life Day is all about reducing stress. Undoubtedly, it can be stressful to try to work out what travel vaccinations and malaria treatments might be required for a trip. The more off-the-beaten track or unusual the trip is, the more difficult it becomes.
Thanks to advanced software, continually fed by the latest data from authorities including the World Health Organisation (WHO), the Pinpoint Travel Health system takes on the task of doing all the travel health planning for you, providing almost instantaneous answers to your travel health queries.
Here’s how we simplify things for the independent traveller – whether travelling privately or on business – as well as travel health clinics and those charged with planning travel health requirements for their clients. This would include cruise ship passengers.
Simplifying travel vaccination and antimalarial planning
- We simplify things by ensuring travel planners do not have to spend many hours trying to research health situations worldwide, when trying to ascertain which travel vaccinations and antimalarial treatments might be required.
- We simplify the duty of care requirement for any employer who has to carry out travel planning for employees. By using our software, the travel planner can instantly see what an individual employee requires, in terms of vaccinations and antimalarials, and what they do not.
- We similarly simplify the role of those having to take on the travel health planning requirements of cruise passengers. Such travellers may be making land at a variety of ports and locations and knowing whether there is a disease health risk there, or at locations to which a shore excursion may take place, can be complicated and time-consuming. If this has to be done for every single passenger, it can take days, if referencing things against their medications and health record. By using the Pinpoint Travel Health system, this painful process can be swiftly completed.
- We take the stress out of travel by ensuring that travellers do not arrive at a foreign border unaware that a yellow fever certificate is required. This certification is necessary for entry to some countries, even if there is no yellow fever present there, if the traveller has made an onward trip from a country where the disease does exist. Even if they have merely transited through the airport, or sometimes port, of such a country, they can be required to show proof of yellow fever vaccination.
- We simplify things by taking the burning questions out of travel health and travel vaccination and malaria treatment planning. Our Travel Health Brief will clarify which of the ‘recommended’ vaccinations you will need, as well as telling you whether the vaccinations that ‘most travellers’ will require are actually necessary for your particular trip and for you as an individual.
- Simplification is delivered by a Travel Health Brief when it comes to identifying any reasons why vaccination might be a bad idea, given your current medication. This can provide reassurance to you but can also save a medic or travel clinic vast amounts of time.
- The system will simplify things for you by automatically taking into account the dates of your travel and cross-referencing these against the seasonal risk of disease. If a disease is only prevalent in certain months, and you will not be in the overseas country at that time, it will factor that in when making its final travel vaccination and antimalarial recommendation.
- In a similar vein, the system will simplify things by only analysing the travel health risks in the actual locations covered by your itinerary. In any other travel health planning scenario, the focus will be country-wide or region-wide, not narrowed down to where you will actually tread.
- Simplification can also be viewed in terms of budgeting. By assessing the vaccinations you don’t need, as well as those that you do, the Pinpoint Travel Health system can save you money.
- Moving on from this, by association, it can also save you time. You don’t have to take time out to head to a travel clinic unnecessarily. And, for the vaccinations you do need, if you go to the travel clinic taking your Pinpoint Travel Health Brief with you, you can save time at the appointment – and the time of the clinician – as all the information that they need has been provided.
- Using the Pinpoint Travel Health system can simplify your life by helping you assess the upfront costs you might have to pay for travel vaccinations and antimalarial treatments, if you elect to travel to a certain country. The costs can soon add up and load unexpected extra charges to your travel budget.
- A huge amount of simplification can be enjoyed by those taking a gap year out or backpacking around the world. Whether you are taking a break before Uni, or enjoying a sabbatical, the Pinpoint Travel Health system can take up all the strain of planning your extensive travel health requirements for your worldwide travel.
- And, of course, if you are a parent, that simplifies your life by removing a lot of the stress that you might suffer worrying about your child’s health. More about all of this can be found in our Gap Year Travel Health Guide.
- Then, finally, there is the major simplification of not suffering a short or extended period of ill health because you did not have the right travel vaccinations or antimalarial precautions in place, prior to travel. By having Pinpoint Travel Health analyse your plans and itinerary, all that you need should be detailed in your personalised Travel Health Brief, leaving you in no doubt as to which precautions are advised.
With all of these major advantages within travel health planning, thanks to the sophistication of the system, its extensive, continually updated data and its ease of use, there is every reason to incorporate a Travel Health Brief into your pre-trip planning process. Head to https://pinpointtravelhealth.com to order your personalised Travel Health Brief – for you and your trip alone – today.
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