Principles and Practice of Travel Medicine
Principles and Practice of Travel Medicine
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ISBN No.: 9780471490791
Pages: 516
Year: 200112
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 752.10
Status: Out Of Print

List of contributors.Foreword.Preface.SECTION I: TRAVEL MEDICINE.Trends in Travel (Thomas l. Treadwell)Epidemiology of Health Risks and Travel (Hans D. Northdurft and Eric Caumes).Fitness to Travel (Dominique Tessier).


Management of a Travel Clinic (Elaine C. Jong).SECTION II: INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND TRAVEL.Epidemiology and Surviellance of Travel-related Diseases (Norman T. Begg).Virus Infections (Arie J. Zuckerman).Bacterial Infections in Travellers (Christopher J.


Ellis and Ann L.N. Chapman).Vector-borne Parasitic Diseases (Indran Balakrishnan and Stephen H Gillespie).SECTION III: PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT OF TRAVEL-RELATED DISEASE.Tropical Skin Infections (Fransisco Vega-Lopez and Verity Blackwell).Traveller's Diarrhea (Luis Ostrosky-Zeichner and Charles D. Ericsson).


Vaccine-preventable Disease (Jane N. Zuckerman).Returned Travellers (Nicholas J. Beeching and Sharon B. Welby).SECTION IV: HAZARDS OF AIR AND SEA TRAVEL.Aviation Medicine (Michael Bagshaw).Aviation Psychology (Robert Bor, Justin Parker and Linda Papadopoulos).


Altitude and Expedition Medicine (David R. Murdoch, Andrew J. Pollard and J. Simon Gibbs).Diving Medicine (Peter J. Benton).Travel Health at Sea: Cruise Ship Medicine (Robert E. Wheeler).


SECTION V: ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS OF TRAVEL.Travel-related Injury (Robert Grenfell).Aeromedical Repatriation (Alex T. Dewhurst and John C. Goldstone).Poisons and Travel (Virginia Murray).Venemous Bites and Stings (R. David G.


Theakston and David G. Lalloo).Ophthalmic Condition in Travellers (T. Richardson and Claire Davey).SECTION VI: PRACTICAL ISSUES FOR TRAVELLERS.Travelling with Children (Philip R. Fischer).Women's Health and Travel (Susan Anderson).


The Immunocompromised Traveller (R.J. Lighthelm and P.P.A.M. van Thiel).Special High-Risk Travel Groups: Immunocompromised, Older, Disabled and Chronically Ill Travelers (Maria D.


Mileno, Kathryn N. Suh, Jay S. Keystone and Frank J. Bia).Aid Workers, Expatriates and Travel (Ken Gamble, Debbie Lovell, Ted Lankester and Jay Keystone).Health of Migrants and Refugees (Louis Loutan).


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