International Travel Health Guide

An indispensable resource for anyone concerned with safe international travel, this best-selling book has been completely updated to provide more state-of-the-art guidance than ever before. In clear, accessible prose, authors Stuart Rose, MD and Jay Keystone, MD cover all of the essentials of healthy travel, from pre-travel vaccination and avoiding jet lag and altitude sickness to the treatment of travelers' diarrhea, malaria prevention, and more. In addition, the book's unique World Health Guide section provides essential health and risk-related information for over 200 countries.

• Includes invaluable information on:
• How to stay healthy while traveling, and what to do if you get sick or injured abroad.
• How to avoid accidents.
• Avoiding insect bites, a major cause of illness in tropical and sub-tropical countries.
• How to locate a clinic for pre-travel shots and advice.
• How to travel with children.
• Traveling during pregnancy.
• How to find travel insurance that pays "up front" and pays for medical evacuation.
• Which diseases are found in specific geographic regions.

1. Overview of Travelers' Health
   
   2. Trip Preparation
   
   3. Vaccines for Travel
   
   4. Jet Lag and Motion Sickness
   
   5. Food and Drink Safety
   
   6. Travelers' Diarrhea
   
   7. Malaria
   
   8. Insect Bite Prevention
   
   9. Insect-Borne Diseases
   
   10. Travel-Related Diseases
   
   11. Lyme Disease
   
   12. Hepatitis
   
   13. Diabetes
   
   14. HIV/AIDS and Sexually-Transmitted Diseases (STDs)
   
   15. Altitude Illness
   
   16. Medical Care Abroad
   
   17. Travel Insurance
   
   18. Medical Transport
   
   19. Business Travel and Health
   
   20. Travel and Pregnancy
   
   21. Traveling with Children