Economic value of pre-travel health interventions for communicable diseases in international travellers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pre-travel health interventions can reduce the acquisition of communicable diseases and decrease the risk of transmission during or after international travel. We sought to inform policy and research priorities with a scoping literature review of studies that assess the cost-effectiveness of pre-travel interventions.

Methods

We assessed 44 economic evaluation studies published from 1946-2023, regarding pre-travel prevention of hepatitis A, hepatitis B, influenza, malaria, rabies, travellers' diarrhoea, cholera, polio, typhoid fever, measles, and Japanese encephalitis.

Results

Published studies demonstrate that hepatitis A vaccination, malaria chemoprophylaxis and typhoid vaccination for people travelling to highly endemic settings are likely to be cost-effe

SUBMITTER: Stanic T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12640876 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature