Book[edited by] Jay S. Keystone, Phyllis E Kozarsky, Bradley A. Connor, Hans D. Nothdurft, Marc Mendelson, Karin Leder.
Summary: "Today's travel medicine includes not only tourism and business travelers, but also incorporates volunteerism, medical care, migration, ecotourism, and more. Travel Medicine, 4th Edition, reflects all of these changes in the field while keeping you up to date with new vaccines and newly proposed regimens, pre-travel advice and post-travel screening, and all travel-related illnesses - for a one-stop, authoritative reference on all aspects of travel medicine"--Publisher's description"--Publisher's description.
Contents:
Section 1: Practice of travel medicine. Introduction to travel medicine
Epidemiology: morbidity and mortality in travelers
Starting, organizing and marketing a travel clinic
Pre-travel consultation
Section 2: The pre-travel consultation. Water disinfection for international travelers
Insect protection
Pre-travel considerations for non-vaccine-preventable travel infections
Travel medicine kits
Section 3: Immunization. Principles of immunization
Routine adult vaccines
Routine travel vaccines: hepatitis A and B, typhoid
Recommended/required travel vaccines
Pediatric travel vaccinations
Section 4: Malaria. Malaria: epidemiology and risk to the traveler
Malaria chemoprophylaxis
Self-diagnosis and self-treatment of malaria by the traveler
Approach to patient with malaria
Section 5: Travelers' diarrhea. Epidemiology of travelers' diarrhea
Prevention of travelers' diarrhea
Clinical presentation and management of travelers' diarrhea
Persistent gastrointestinal symptoms in the ill-returning traveler
Section 6: Travelers with special needs. The pregnant and breastfeeding traveler
The pediatric and adolescent traveler
The older traveler
The physically challenged traveller
The traveler with pre-existing disease
The immunocompromised traveller
The traveler with HIV
The business traveler
The VIP traveler: mission-oriented travel medicine
Health aspects of international adoption
Visiting friends and relatives
Section 7: Travelers with special itineraries. Expatriates: corporate, missionary and volunteer
The migrant traveler
Humanitarian aid workers
The deployed military: medical readiness and travel-related health issues
Expedition medicine
Ecotourism
Medical tourism
Cruise ship travel
Mass gatherings
Section 8: Environmental aspects of travel medicine. High-altitude medicine
Diving medicine
Extremes of temperature and hydration
Jet lag
Motion sickness
The aircraft cabin environment
Section 9: Health problems while traveling. Bites, stings, and envenoming injuries
Seafood poisining
Injuries and injury prevention
Mental health issues of travelers
Travelers' thrombosis
Healthcare abroad
Personal security and crime avoidance
Section 10: Post-travel. Post-travel screening
Fever in returned travelers
Skin diseases
Eosinophilia
Respiratory infections
Appendix. Sources of travel medicine information.