Travel Medicine. a Country-to-Country Guide

Description

Travel medicine is accepted as a unique subspecialty in medicine. With more persons traveling to tropical and subtropical destinations, travel medicine is becoming an increasing challenge for the health care systems in many countries. New trends in tourism, such as trekking in sub-Saharan Africa, expose tourist travelers to unusual parasitic diseases. The global public health community has been confronting the challenges of the emergence and rapid worldwide spreading of new influenza virus strains, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), chikungunya virus, drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and many other pathogens. The present book provides an epidemiologic based country-to-country guide to disease prevention and treatment; information on endemic diseases; necessary prevention guidelines, public health indicators, and an update of recent disease outbreaks. (Imprint: Nova Biomedical)

Authors: Morteza Izadi, Head of Health Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran)

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgement

Section I: Africa

Chapter 1: Eastern Africa
(Morteza Izadi, Seyed Masoud Khatami, Ramin Bidar and Seyed Hassan Saadat, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran and others) pp. 1-36

Chapter 2: Middle Africa
(Morteza Izadi, Minu Mohraz, Shahram Masoudi and Seyed Araz Ayati Najafabadi, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran and others)pp. 37-64

Chapter 3: Northern Africa
(Morteza Izadi, Gholamhosein Alishiri and Navid Etedali, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran and others) pp. 65-92

Chapter 4: Southern Africa
(Morteza Izadi and Nematollah Jonaidi, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran and others) pp. 93-98

Chapter 5: Western Africa
(Morteza Izadi, Mohammadreza Shams Ardakani, Seyed Ahmad Mosavi and Amir Nasser Shamdani, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran and others)pp. 99-150

Section II: America

Chapter 6: The Caribbean
(Morteza Izadi, Mohammadjavad Hoseinpourfard and Hosein Khedmat, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran and others)pp. 151-152

Chapter 7: Central America
(Morteza Izadi, Alireza Dargahi and Navid Bazaz, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran and others)pp. 153-170

Chapter 8: South America
(Morteza Izadi, Mohammadjavad Hoseinpourfard, Seyed Mohsaen Zahraei and Hamed Akbari, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran and others) pp. 171-194

Chapter 9: North America
(Morteza Izadi and Seyed Behzad Jazayeri, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran and others) pp. 195-236

Section III: Asia

Chapter 10: Central Asia
(Morteza Izadi, Mustafa Ghanei and Yunes Panahi, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran and others)pp. 237-248

Chapter 11: Eastern Asia
(Morteza Izadi, Jafar Aslani and Mahmoud Sorush, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran and others)pp. 249-274

Chapter 12: Southern Asia
(Morteza Izadi, Aliakbar Velayati, Mohammadjavad Hoseini and Mozhgan Fazel, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran and others) pp. 275-300

Chapter 13: Southeastern Asia
(Morteza Izadi, Mohammadmehdi Gooya and Mohammad Hossein Naseri, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran and others)pp. 301-328

Chapter 14: Western Asia
(Morteza Izadi, Peyman Adibi, Reza Ranjbar, Hassan Araghizadeh, Amir Adibzadeh and Mohammadmahdi Abedi, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran and others)pp. 329-436

Section IV: Europe

Chapter 15: Eastern Europe
(Morteza Izadi, Farzin Khorvash, Avid Bazaz and Jamal Akhavan Moghadam, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran and others) pp. 437-462

Chapter 16: Northern Europe
(Morteza Izadi and Seyed Behzad Jazayeri, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran and others)pp. 463-478

Chapter 17: Southern Europe
(Morteza Izadi, Reza Imani, Mahmoud Mobasheri and Behrooz Ataei, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran and others)pp. 479-506

Chapter 18: Western Europe
(Morteza Izadi, Mahmoud Nabavi, Maryam Jalali and Mohammad Hosein Delshad, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran and others)pp. 507-524

Section V: Oceania

Chapter 19: Australia and New Zealand
(Morteza Izadi and Seyed Behzad Jazayeri, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran and others)pp. 525-526

Appendix A: Emergency contact numbers

Index pp. 543-549