
International Travel Health Guide
13th Edition
Description
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.
Key Features
- 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.
Table of Contents
- 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
Details
- No. of pages:
- 784
- Language:
- English
- Copyright:
- © Mosby 2006
- Published:
- 5th December 2005
- Imprint:
- Mosby
- eBook ISBN:
- 9780323070737
- Paperback ISBN:
- 9780323040501
About the Author
Stuart Rose
Affiliations and Expertise
Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine
Jay Keystone
Affiliations and Expertise
Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto; Staff Physician, Center for Travel and Tropical Medicine, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada