Travel medicine. (©2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jay S. Keystone [and others].
• Other Names: Keystone, J. S
• Contents: Introduction to Travel Medicine -- Epidemiology: Morbidity and Mortality in Travelers -- Starting, Organizing, and Marketing a Travel Clinic -- Sources of Travel Medicine Information -- Pre-Travel Consultation -- Water Disinfection for International Travelers -- Insect Protection -- Travel Medical Kits -- Principles of Immunization -- Routine Adult Vaccines and Boosters -- Routine Travel Vaccines: Hepatitis A and B, Typhoid, Influenza -- Special Adult Travel Vaccines: Yellow Fever, Meningococcal, Japanese Encephalitis, TBE, Rabies, Polio, Cholera -- Pediatric Travel Vaccinations -- Malaria: Epidemiology and Risk to the Traveler -- Malaria Chemoprophylaxis -- Self-Diagnosis and Self-Treatment of Malaria by the Traveler -- Approach to the Patient with Malaria -- Epidemiology of Travelers' Diarrhea -- Prevention of Travelers' Diarrhea -- Clinical Presentation and Management of Travelers' Diarrhea -- Persistent Travelers' Diarrhea -- The Pregnant and Breastfeeding Traveler -- The Pediatric and Adolescent Traveler -- The Older Traveler -- The Physically Challenged Traveler -- The Travelers with Pre-Existing Disease -- The Immunocompromised Traveler -- The Traveler with HIV -- The Corporate and Executive Traveler -- International Adoption -- Visiting Friends and Relatives -- Expatriates -- The Migrant Patient -- Humanitarian Aid Workers -- Expedition Medicine -- Medical Tourism -- Cruise Ship Travel -- Mass Gatherings -- High-Altitude Medicine -- Diving Medicine -- Extremes of Temperature and Hydration -- Jet Lag -- Motion Sickness -- The Aircraft Cabin Environment -- Bites, Stings, and Envenoming Injuries -- Food-Borne Illness -- Injuries and Injury Prevention -- Psychiatric Disorders of Travel -- Travelers' Thrombosis -- Healthcare Abroad -- Personal Security and Crime Avoidance -- Post-Travel Screening -- Fever in Returned Travelers -- Skin Diseases -- Eosinophilia -- Respiratory Infections.
• Edition: 3rd ed
• Publisher Details: Oxford : Saunders
• Publication Date: 2013
• Copyright Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 552 pages), color illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 613.68; Travel -- Health aspects; HEALTH & FITNESS -- Safety; Travel -- Health aspects; Travel Medicine -- methods; Communicable Disease Control; Primary Prevention; Travel; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781455745432; 9781455710768; 1455710768
• Related ISBNs: 145574543X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.