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Travellers' Health

Travellers' Health

How to stay healthy abroad

9780199214167
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Our ability to travel to the remotest parts of the world has been transformed, but the health risks are ever changing and increasing, and there may be no one to help when things go wrong. Whether you are travelling abroad for business or pleasure, this book provides essential, detailed, practical advice for journeys all over the world. This fifth edition is a complete revision of a best-selling, comprehensive and trusted guide. Travellers need to be increasingly well informed about health problems they may encounter abroad. Malaria prevention, the latest vaccine information and advice, cruise ship travel, jet lag, skiing, and accidents and injuries abroad:: this book covers every important issue in travel medicine, with the emphasis firmly on self-help and prevention. This new edition brings together state-of-the-art background information and specialist advice from more than 70 leading experts from several countries, now in a more compact format. It is also available in an electronic edition. Travellers Health is the standard source for the well-prepared traveller.
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OUP Oxford
86940
9780199214167
9780199214167

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Publication date
2012
Issue number
5
Cover
paperback
Pages count
562
Dimensions (mm)
100 x 180
Weight (g)
412
  • 1. INTRODUCTION: STAYING HEALTHY ABROAD; Introduction; 2. FOOD AND HYGIENE RELATED DISEASE RISK; Diarrhoea and intestinal infections; Parasites from infected food and drink; Poliomyelitis; Viral hepatitis; Poisons and contaminants in food; 3. WATER-RELATED DISEASES; Safe water; Water purification devices; Recreational water and beaches; Algal blooms; 4. DISEASES OF CONTACT; Tuberculosis; Tetanus; Diphtheria; Schistosomiasis (bilharzia); Meningococcal Disease; Legionnaires disease; Worm infections from soil contact; Leprosy; Anthrax; Viral hemorrhagic fevers; Leptospirosis; Influenza A and B; 5. DISEASES SPREAD BY INSECTS; Malaria; Arboviruses: dengue, Japanese encephalitis, yellow fever and others; Filarial infections; Lyme disease; Leishmaniasis; Sleeping sickness (African trypanosomiasis); Chagas disease (South American trypanosomiasis); Plague; Typhus: The rickettsial infections; Myiasis (maggot infestation); Fleas, lice, bugs, scabies, and other creatures; Personal protection against insect pests; 6. ANIMAL ATTACKS; RABIES; VENOMOUS BITES AND STINGS; Animal attacks; rabies; venomous bites and stings; 7. AIR AND SEA TRAVEL; Air travel; Jet lag; Motion sickness; Cruise Ship Medicine; 8. ENVIRONMENTAL AND RECREATIONAL HAZARDS; Accidents; Personal safety and security; Altitude illness; Effects of climatic extremes; Sun and the traveler; Hay fever seasons worldwide; Yachting and sailing: nautical tourism; Swimming, diving and water sports; Snow sports; 9. SOME COMMON PROBLEMS; Skin problems; Dental problems; Eye problems; Foot care; Skin and soft tissue infections; Respiratory and airborne problems in travellers; Gynaecological problems; Psychological disorders; Fever and undifferentiated febrile illnesses; 10. SEXUAL CONTRACEPTION ABROAD; Sexually-transmitted infections; Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV); Contraception and travel: be safe, be prepared; 11. TRAVELLERS WITH SPECIAL HEALTH NEEDS; Travel in pregnancy; Children abroad; Elderly travellers; The traveller with diabetes; The immunocompromised traveller; The disabled traveller; Expedition Medicine; Medical Tourism; Health protection of Armed Forces personnel; 12. LIVING AND WORKING ABROAD; Becoming an expatriate; Fitness for working abroad; 13. PREPARING FOR TRAVEL; Risk and risk assessment for travellers; Immunization; Travel insurance: the whys, whats and hows; Travel law; Medicines and medical kits; Blood transfusion, blood products and the traveller; 14. EMERGING INFECTIONS: THE FUTURE; Emerging infections: the future; APPENDIXES; Appendix 1: Vaccination requirements and recommendations; Appendix 2: Resource Guide; Appendix 3: Some hints on eating abroad under extreme conditions of bad hygiene; Appendix 4: Medical Kit Checklist; Appendix 5: Post-travel health screening; Appendix 6: Hay fever seasons worldwide; Further reading; Glossary; Index;
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