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Essential travel medicine / edited by Jane N. Zuckerman, Gary W. Brunette, Peter A. Leggat. - 1 online resource (xvii, 337 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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



ISBN: 9781118597385 1118597389 9781118597392 1118597397 9781118597361 1118597362

Publisher. No.: EB00611971 Recorded Books

LCCN: 2015017850

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Travel--Health aspects.
International travel--Health aspects.
Communicable diseases.
Travel Medicine.
Travel.
Communicable Diseases.
Internationality.
HEALTH & FITNESS / Healthy Living
HEALTH & FITNESS / Holism
HEALTH & FITNESS / Reference
MEDICAL / Preventive Medicine
Medical.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: RA783.5

Dewey Class. No.: 613.6/8

National Library of Medicine Call No.: WA 108