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Book SynopsisWritten by stellar international authors, Essential Travel Medicine is the ideal rapid reference guide to what is a topic of huge international importance.
Table of ContentsList of Contributors vii
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xvii
Section 1: Travel medicine
1 Basic epidemiology of infectious diseases 3
Mark J. Sotir & David O. Freedman
2 Basic epidemiology of non-infectious diseases 9
Richard C. Franklin & Peter A. Leggat
3 Pre-travel health risk assessment 23
Peter A. Leggat & Jane N. Zuckerman
4 Setting up a travel clinic 35
Marc T.M. Shaw & Claire S. Wong
5 Travel medicine resources 45
Peter A. Leggat, Gary W. Brunette, Gilles Poumerol, & Jane N. Zuckerman
Section 2: Travel-related infectious diseases
6 Travelers’ diarrhea 57
Charles D. Ericsson
7 Vector-borne diseases 65
Annelies Wilder-Smith
8 Yellow fever 75
Mark D. Gershman & J. Erin Staples
9 Malaria 83
Tomas Jelinek
10 Respiratory disease 95
Regina LaRocque & Edward T. Ryan
11 Sexually transmitted infections 103
Alberto Matteelli, Anna Cristina C. Carvalho, & Patricia Schlagenhauf
12 Tropical skin infections 115
Francisco Vega-López & Sara Ritchie
13 Rabies 121
Mary J. Warrell
14 Vaccine-preventable diseases 131
Joseph Torresi, Abinash Virk & Jane N Zuckerman
Section 3: Travelers with underlying medical problems and special needs
15 Women’s health and travel 167
I. Dale Carroll
16 Traveling with children 173
Karl Neumann, Andrea P. Summer, & Philip R. Fischer
17 Travelers with underlying medical conditions 187
Anne E. McCarthy & Kathryn N. Suh
18 The older traveler and traveling with disability 199
Kathryn N. Suh & Anne E. McCarthy
19 Visiting friends and relatives 209
Karin Leder & Sarah L. McGuinness
20 Migrants, refugees, and travel medicine 215
Louis Loutan
21 Study-abroad programs: student health and safety issues 221
Gary Rhodes & Gary W. Brunette
22 Humanitarian aid workers, disaster relief workers, and missionaries 227
Brian D. Gushulak & Douglas W. MacPherson
23 Long-term travelers 235
Claire Davies & Ted Lankester
Section 4: Environmental travel health risks
24 Aviation and travel medicine 243
Michael Bagshaw, Ian C. Cheng & Robert Bor
25 Expedition and wilderness medicine 257
Sean T. Hudson, Will Smith, David R. Shlim, Caroline J. Knox & Karen J. Marienau
26 Venomous poisonous animals and toxins 279
Mark A. Read
27 Cruise ships and travel medicine 285
Sally S.J. Bell & Eilif Dahl
28 Mass gatherings and travel medicine 293
Joanna Gaines & Gary W. Brunette
29 Emergency care whilst abroad 301
Peter A. Leggat & Marc T.M. Shaw
Section 5: Post-travel medicine
30 The returning traveler 313
Tamar Lachish, Alfons Van Gompel & Eli Schwartz
Index 327
