Principles and Practice of Travel Medicine

Description

This second edition of Principles and Practice of Travel Medicine has been extensively updated to provide a comprehensive description of travel medicine and is an invaluable reference resource to support the clinical practice of travel medicine.

This new edition covers the many recent advances in the field, including the development of new and combined vaccines; malaria prophylaxis; emerging new infections; new hazards resulting from travel to long haul destinations; health tourism; and population movements. The chapter on vaccine-preventable diseases includes new developments in licensed vaccines, as well as continent-based recommendations for their administration.

There are chapters on the travel health management of high risk travellers, including the diabetic traveller, the immuno-compromised, those with cardiovascular, renal, neurological, gastrointestinal, malignant and other disorders, psychological and psychiatric illnesses, pregnant women, children and the elderly.

With increasing numbers of ever more adventurous travellers, there is discussion of travel medicine within extreme environments, whilst the chapter on space tourism may well be considered the future in travel medicine.

Principles and Practice of Travel Medicine is an invaluable resource for health care professionals providing advice and clinical care to the traveller.

Table of contents

Contributor list
Preface

Section I Travel medicine

• 1 Trends in travel, 3
  Thomas L. Treadwell
• 2 Tourism, aviation and the impact on travel medicine, 9
  Anne Graham
• 3 Epidemiology of health risks and travel, 19
  Hans D. Nothdurft and Eric Caumes
• 4 Fitness to travel, 27
  Dominique Tessier
• 5 Management of a travel clinic, 37
  Abinash Virk and Elaine C. Jong

Section II Infectious diseases and travel

• 6 Epidemiology and surveillance of travel-related diseases, 47
  Tomas Jelinek
• 7 Virus infections in travellers, 55
  Arie J. Zuckerman
• 8 Bacterial infections in travellers, 99
  Ann L.N. Chapman and Christopher J. Ellis
• 9 Vector-borne parasitic diseases, 112
  Emma C. Wall and Peter L. Chiodini
• 10 Malaria and travellers, 126
  • Malaria, 126
    David J. Bell and David G. Lalloo
  • Malaria chemoprophylaxis, 133
    Patricia Schlagenhauf, Catherine Jeppesen, Laura K. Erdman, Melanie Newport, and Kevin C. Kain
  • The strategy of standby emergency self-treatment, 143
    Patricia Schlagenhauf
• 11 Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, 146
  Francisco G. Santos O’Connor

Section III Prevention and management of travel-related diseases

• 12 Skin tropical infections and dermatology in travellers, 167
  Francisco Vega-López and Sara Ritchie
• 13 Travellers’ diarrhoea, 197
  Charles D. Ericsson
• 14 Vaccine-preventable disease, 209
  Jay Halbert, Phyllis Kozarsky, Jane Chiodini, Nicholas Zwar, Gary Brunette and Jane N. Zuckerman
• 15 Returned travellers, 260
  Nicholas J. Beeching, Tom E. Fletcher and Limin Wijaya

Section IV Hazards of air and sea travel

• 16 Aviation medicine, 289
  Michael Bagshaw
• 17 Aviation psychology, 315
  Robert Bor, Carina Eriksen, Margaret Oakes and Philip Baum
• 18 Expedition and extreme environmental medicine, 328
  Sean Hudson, Andrew Luks, Piers Carter, Luanne Freer, Caroline Knox, Chris Imray and Lesley Thomson
• 19 Travel health at sea: cruise ship medicine, 380
  Robert E. Wheeler

Section V Environmental hazards of travel

• 20 Travel-related injury, 397
  Robert Grenfell
• 21 International assistance and repatriation, 403
  Alex T. Dewhurst and John C. Goldstone
• 22 Venomous bites and stings, 415
  R. David G. Theakston and David G. Lalloo
• 23 Ophthalmic conditions in travellers, 434
  Clare Davey and James Tee

Section VI Practical issues for travellers

• 24 Travelling with children (including international adoption issues), 447
  Philip R. Fischer and Andrea P. Summer
• 25 Women’s health and travel, 463
  I. Dale Carroll and Susan Anderson
• 26 The immunocompromised traveller, 503
  Robert J. Ligthelm and Pieter-Paul A.M. van Thiel
• 27 High-risk travellers, 515
  Kathryn N. Suh, Anne E. McCarthy, Maria D. Mileno and Jay S. Keystone
• 28 Aid workers, expatriates and travel, 531
  Kenneth L. Gamble, Deborah M. Hawker, Ted Lankester and Jay S. Keystone
• 29 The health of migrants and refugees, 556
  Louis Loutan, Sophie Durieux-Paillard and Ariel Eytan
• 30 Visiting friends and relatives, 566
  Delane Shingadia
• 31 Travel medicine, ethics and health tourism, 571
  Deborah Bowman and Richard Dawood
• 32 Medico-legal issues in travel medicine, 579
  Jennifer G. Baine and Paul S. Auerbach
• 33 Travellers’ safety and security, 588
  Peter A. Leggat and Jeff Wilks
• 34 The international athlete: travelling healthy to global sporting events, 601
  Travis W. Heggie, Sarah Borwein and Marc T.M. Shaw
• 35 Space tourism – the future in travel health?, 612
  Kevin J. Fong and Mark H. Wilson

Index, 623