Textbook of Travel Medicine and Health
B.C. Decker Inc (Verlag)
978-1-55009-037-6 (ISBN)
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This comprehensive volume covers all aspects of travel medicine from infectious diseases to special populations, environment risks, and illnesses abroad and back home. Basic considerations such as pre-travel planning, clinic facilities and health risks abroad are elaborated as a foundation for clinical discussions. Emphasises prevention and public health risks.
Part 1 Basics of travel medicine: health risks abroad, general considerations; travel industry and medical professionals; pre-travel planning; travel and tourism patterns; sources of information; travel medicine and the travel medicine clinic. Part 2 Travellers and the environment: developing regions; high altitude; sea and diving; extremes of temperature. Part 3 Infectious health risks abroad and preventive measures: travellers' diarrhoea; malaria; vaccine preventable diseases; respiratory tract infections; sexually-transmitted diseases; viral tropical infections; bacterial tropical infections; parasitic tropical infections. Part 4 Non-infectious health risks and preventive measures: psychiatric illness and stress; high-altitude sickness; accidents, bites and stings; travel-related illness; economic considerations; compliance with Travel Health Recommendations; Part 5: Special risk groups: short-term travellers; expatriates and the long-term traveller; expedition participants; infants and young children; pregnancy, nursing, contraception and travel; the aged, handicapped and infirm traveller. Part 6 Illness abroad and back home: emergency abroad, medical care and facilities and indications for and logistics of evacuation; diagnostic and management approaches in returning travellers; outbreak investigations. Part 7 The future: risk of travel in the year 2006.
| Zusatzinfo | Illustrations, maps |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Ontario |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 273 x 200 mm |
| Gewicht | 1000 g |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Arbeits- / Sozial- / Umweltmedizin |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Klinische Umweltmedizin | |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-55009-037-2 / 1550090372 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-55009-037-6 / 9781550090376 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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