Principles and Practice of Travel Medicine
1st Edition
Published on 7. November 2001
Book
Hardback
XII, 504 pages
978-0-471-49079-1 (ISBN)
Description
Disease knows no frontiers and almost any place in the world can be reached within 24-36 hours, less time than the incubation period of most infectious diseases. As one of today's healthcare professionals you are expected to prevent, identify and treat all infectious diseases irrespective of geographical and climatic limitations. To do this you must be well versed in the development of new and improved vaccines and the rapid advances in the development of the latest drugs and treatments.
Principles and Practice of Travel Medicine provides up to the minute information on the prevention and treatment of travel-related ill health, as well as the effects travel can have on people.
Written in a distinctive style, Zuckerman offers you not only the latest information, but also an interesting, thought provoking read. Your essential one-stop resource for travel medicine, includes:
* Epidemiology and surveillance of infectious diseases
* Malaria and other parasitic diseases
* Aviation medicine and psychology
* Altitude medicine
* Illness in returning travellers
* Vaccine preventable diseases
* Children and travel
Reviews / Votes
"The case histories throughout help to highlight the subjects. This textbook will be a welcome addition to those involved in training and those advising travellers and a valuable resource for study and reference."(Royal College of Nursing Travel Medicine Forum Newsletter, January 2002)"To put together such a valuable and useful reference as this is a monumental task, and the book deserves a place on the shelves of all travel clinics." (Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene)"The book deserves a place beside the few other textbooks on travel medicine."New England Journal of MedicineOctober 10, 2002 "The case histories throughout help to highlight the subjects. This textbook will be a welcome addition to those involved in training and those advising travellers and a valuable resource for study and reference." Royal College of Nursing Travel Medicine Forum Newsletter, January 2002)"To put together such a valuable and useful reference as this is a monumental task, and the book deserves a place on the shelves of all travel clinics." (Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene)More details
Edition
1., Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Chichester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Ill.
Dimensions
Height: 25.3 cm
Width: 19.6 cm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
1240 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-49079-1 (9780471490791)
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
New editions
Jane N. Zuckerman
Principles and Practice of Travel Medicine
Book
02/2013
2nd Edition
Wiley
€273.50
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Persons
Content
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)