Essential Travel Medicine (eBook)

Jane N. Zuckerman, Gary Brunette, Peter Leggat (Autoren)

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2015
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-59739-2 (ISBN)

Infos

This 1^st edition of Essential Travel Medicine provides an excellent concise introduction to the specialty of Travel Medicine. This core text will enable health care practitioners particularly those new to the clinical practice of Travel Medicine, to gain a fundamental understanding of the diverse and complex issues which can potentially affect the health of the many millions of people who undertake international travel.

Jane N Zuckerman is joined by Gary W Brunette from CDC and Peter A Leggat from Australia as Editors. Leading international specialists in their fields have contributed authoritative chapters reflecting current knowledge to facilitate best clinical practice in the different aspects of travel medicine.

The aim of Essential Travel Medicine is to provide a comprehensive guide to Travel Medicine as well as a fundamental knowledge base to support international undergraduate and postgraduate specialty training programmes in the discipline of Travel Medicine.

The 1^st edition of Essential Travel Medicine offers an indispensable resource of essential information for travel health practitioners, infectious disease specialists, occupational health specialists, public health specialists, family practitioners, pharmacists and other allied health professionals. This core text will appeal similarly to those training in Travel Medicine and to those who want a concise introduction to the subject or an ideal revision companion.

Jane N Zuckerman (UK), Gary Brunette (USA) and Peter Leggat (Australia)

Jane Zuckerman, Academic Centre for Travel Medicine and Vaccines, WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference, Research and Training in Travel Medicine, University College London Medical School, University College London, UK.
Dr Jane Zuckerman has a long history working in the travel health field and holds a number of key positions. Dr Jane Zuckerman is Director of the Academic Centre for Travel Medicine and Vaccines, a WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference, Research and Training in Travel Medicine. She holds the positions of Sub-Dean and Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant at University College London Medical School and the Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust, London.  She is also the Medical Director of the Royal Free Travel Health Centre and the UCL Medical Student Occupational Health Centre.
Dr Zuckerman is also a member of the World Health Organisation Advisory Panel for International Travel and Health, member of the World Health Organisation Guideline Committee for air-travel and tuberculosis and member of the World Health Organisation European Civil Aviation Review Group.
She has published more than 200 publications including 100 peer-reviewed original research papers; invited reviews, editorials, books and chapters in books on all aspects of travel medicine; international health, hepatitis A and B vaccines, travel and other vaccines; immune responses and immunogenetics; epidemiology and the medical student elective period. She is Editor of two reference books: Principles & Practice of Travel Medicine, and Travellers' Vaccines - both published as 2nd Editions. She is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed journal The Journal of Travel Medicine & Infectious Disease.
Dr Zuckerman received the award of UK Hospital Doctor of the Year 2001 and the UK Hospital Doctor Innovation Award for 2001. She was also listed in 2001 by the British Medical Association as one of the 82 'Pioneers in Patient Care: NHS Consultants leading change'.

Autor

Jane N. Zuckerman, University College London, London, UK Gary W. Brunette, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA Peter A. Leggat, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia

Inhalt

List 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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.5.2015
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Arbeits- / Sozial- / Umweltmedizin
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Mikrobiologie / Infektologie / Reisemedizin
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Klinische Umweltmedizin
• Schlagworte: Infectious Disease & Microbiology • Infektionskrankheiten u. Mikrobiologie • Medical Science • Medizin • Reise- u. Tropenmedizin • Travel Medicine, International Travel, Infectious Diseases, Tropical Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Non-Infectious Diseases, Yellow Fever, Malaria, Respiratory disease, Sexually transmitted infections, Rabies, Humanitarian. • Travel / Tropical Medicine
• ISBN-10: 1-118-59739-7 / 1118597397
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-59739-2 / 9781118597392