Travel medicine /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh, New York :
Mosby,
2004.
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Table of Contents:
- The practice of travel medicine
- Introduction to travel medicine
- Epidemiology : morbidity and morality in travelers
- Starting, organizing and marketing a travel clinic
- Sources of travel medicine information
- The pre-travel consultation
- Water consultation
- Water disinfection for international travelers
- Insect protection
- Travel health and medical kits
- Immunization
- Principles of immunization
- Adult immunization
- Pediatric vaccinations
- Malaria
- Malaria : epidemiology and risk of the traveler
- Malaria chemoprophylaxis
- Self-diagnosis and self-treatment of malaria by the traveler
- Approach to the patient with malaria
- Travelers' diarrhea
- Epidemiology of travelers' diarrhea
- Prevention of travelers' diarrhea
- Clinical presentation and treatment of travelers' diarrhea
- Self-diagnosis and treatment of travelers' diarrhea
- Travelers with special needs
- The pregnant and breast-feeding traveler
- Pediatric, neonatal and adolescent traveler
- The elderly traveler
- The disabled traveler
- Travelers with pre-existing disease
- Preparation of immunocompromised travelers
- The traveler with HIV
- The corporate traveler
- International adoption
- Visiting friends and relatives
- Travelers with special itineraries
- Expatriates
- Expedition medicine
- Remote destinations
- The health-seeking traveler
- Psychological aspects of travel medicine
- Fear of flying - aviophobia
- Psychiatric disorders and psychiatric emergencies overseas
- Cultural adaptation
- Re-entry after long-term travel/living abroad
- Enviromental aspects of travel medicine
- Altitude
- Diving and marine medicine
- Extremes of temperature and hydration
- Sun-associated problems
- Jet lag
- Motion sickness
- Enviromental issues in travel medicine
- Aircraft cabin enviroment
- Health problems while traveling
- Bites, stings and envenoming injuries
- Food-borne illness
- Injuries and injury prevention
- Healthcare abroad
- Personal security and crime avoidance
- Post-travel care
- Post-travel screening
- Fever
- Skin diseases
- Persistent travelers' diarrhea
- Eosinophilia
- Respiratory diseases
- Emerging problems in travel medicine