Essential travel medicine
By: [edited by] Jane N. Zuckerman, Gary W. Brunette, Peter A. Leggat
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; Wiley-Interscience; Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Chichester, UK; Hoboken, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9781118597255
Subjects: Travel; Health aspects; International travel; Communicable diseases
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Basic epidemiology of infectious diseases / Mark J. Sotir and David O. Freedman; title: Basic epidemiology of non-infectious diseases / Richard C. Franklin and Peter A. Leggat; title: Pre-travel health risk assessment / Peter A. Leggat and Jane N. Zuckerman; title: Setting up a travel clinic; title: Marc T.M. Shaw and Claire S. Wong; title: Travel medicine resources / Peter A. Leggat, Gary W. Brunette, Gilles Poumerol and Jane N. Zuckerman; title: Travellers' diarrhoea / Charles D. Ericsson; title: Vector borne diseases / Annelies Wilder-Smith; title: Yellow fever / Mark D. Gershman and J. Erin Staples; title: Malaria / Tomas Jelinek; title: Respiratory disease and travel / Regina Larocque and Edward T. Ryan; title: Sexually transmitted infections in travellers / Alberto Matteelli, Anna Cristina Carvalho and Patricia Schlagenhauf; title: Tropical skin infections / Fransisco Vega-Lopez and Sara Ritchie; title: Rabies / Mary Warrell; title: Vaccine-preventable disease / Joseph Torresi, Abinash Virk and Jane N. Zuckerman; title: Women's health and travel / I. Dale Carroll; title: Children's health and travel / Karl Newman and Phil Fischer; title: Travelers with underlying medical conditions / Anne McCarthy and Kathy Suh; title: The older traveler and traveling with disability / Kathy Suh and Anne McCarthy; title: Visiting friends and relatives / Karin Leder and Sarah McGuinness; title: Migrants, refugees and travel medicine / Louis Loutan; title: Study-abroad programs : student health and safety issues / Gary Rhodes and Gary W. Brunette; title: Humanitarian aid workers, disaster relief workers, and missionaries / Brian D. Gushulak and Douglas W. MacPherson; title: Long-term travelers / Claire Davies and Ted Lankester; title: Aviation and travel medicine / Michael Bagshaw, Ian Cheng and Robert Bor; title: Expedition and wilderness medicine / Sean Hudson, Will Smith, David Shlim, Caroline Knox, Karen Marienau; title: Scuba and diving medicine / Karen J. Marienau; title: Venomous and poisonous animals and toxins / Mark A. Read; title: Cruise ships and travel medicine / Sally S.J. Bell and Eilif Dahl; title: Mass gatherings and travel medicine / Joanna Gaines and Gary W. Brunette; title: Emergency care whilst abroad / Peter A. Leggat and Marc T.M. Shaw; title: The returning traveller / Tamar Lachish, Fons Van Gompel and Eli Schwartz.