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By
Cameron Lockie, MBE, BSc(Hons), FRCPEdin, FRCGP, FRGS
Eric Walker, FRCP, MRCGP
Lorna Calvert, MN, RGN
Jonathan Cossar, MD, ChB
Robin Knill-Jones, FRCP, FFPHM
Fiona Raeside, MN, RGN, RM
Audience
GPs, Practice nurses, Travel medicine specialists eg doctors in travel clinics of international companies, Infectious diseases physicians, Occupational health physicians, Public health physicians.
Contents
Travellers health. Emerging infections and relation to travel. Risk assessment. Surveillance of travel related illness. Provision of
travel medicine services. Travel health policies and protocols. Physiological problems associated with air travel. Travellers with
medical problems. Fitness to travel. Psychological and psychiatric aspects of travel and protracted tropical visits. Accidents and
injuries. Swimming and diving. Effect of altitude on health. Solar damage. Aeromedical transportation and evacuation. Sexually transmitted
disease and travel. HIV infection and the international traveller. Diseases spread by food and water. Diseases transmitted through
person to person contact. Diseases spread by insects and animals. Travellers diarrhoea. Immunisations. Malaria parasitology. Malaria
management. Malaria prevention. Malaria future prospects. Travel in Sub-Saharan Africa. Travel in the Indian sub continent. Travel
in South and Central America. Travel in South East Asia. Travel in cold climates. Expedition medicine. Women and children travellers
abroad, including pregnancy. Effect of travel on host countries. The returned traveller: General (screening, counselling etc), and
Investigation of the ill returned traveller. Education in travel medicine. Principles of research in travel medicine. Refugees and
migration.
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Paperback, 516 pages, publication date: JUN-2000
ISBN-13: 978-0-443-06242-1
ISBN-10: 0-443-06242-0
Imprint: CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE
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