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Textbook of Travel Medicine and Health - Herbert L. DuPont, Robert Steffen

Textbook of Travel Medicine and Health

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500 Seiten
2000 | 2nd Revised edition
B.C. Decker Inc
978-1-55009-137-3 (ISBN)
CHF 187,40 inkl. MwSt
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This text provides guidelines and recommendations to help prevent disease and assure optimal medical treatment for travellers. It covers disease risk by region, and has new chapters on environmental changes, high altitude and sun-related problems, and swimming pool hygiene.

medicine as a unique medical speciality; health risks abroad - general considerations; travel industry; philosophical and ethical considerations; economic evaluation in travel medicine; pre-travel planning; travel and tourism; sources of travel information; compliance with travel recommendations; travel clinics; environmental changes - impact on tourism; disease risks by region; medical problems of high altitude; marine hazards; medical risks; diseases and disorders caused by the sun; swimming pool hygiene; threats of security during international travel; emerging and re-emerging disease threats for travellers; travellers' diarrhoea; malaria; vaccines; respiratory tract infections; sexually transmitted diseases; viruses; bacterial and rickettsial tropical infections; parasitic tropical infections; psychiatric illness and stress; travel related injuries - epidemiology and prevention; venomous bites and stings; air travel and related illness; very short-term travel; expatriates and long-term travellers; expedition participants; the migrant as a traveller; travelling with infants and children; pregnancy, nursing, contraception and travel; the aged, infirm or handicapped traveller; the immunocompromised traveller; travel for drugs and special treatment; biological and chemical terrorism; international medical treatment; outbreak investigation and management; the future of travel medicine - next ten years.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 4.12.2006
Zusatzinfo Mixed media
Verlagsort Ontario
Sprache englisch
Gewicht 1388 g
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
ISBN-10 1-55009-137-9 / 1550091379
ISBN-13 978-1-55009-137-3 / 9781550091373
Zustand Neuware
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